From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 9 18:46:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA09929 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 18:46:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA09924 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 18:46:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA13881; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 18:46:03 -0700 Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 18:46:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Chang To: Terry Lambert cc: terry@lambert.org, mcs@vpm.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape's Atlas for FreeBSD Bombs In-Reply-To: <199604100102.SAA06377@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > I think I remember seeing this come across this list earlier and didn't pay > > > > any attention to it, and now I wish I did. The new Atlas from Nescape is > > > > bombing with a 'floating' something error. Is this a Netscape bug or > > > > something in FreeBSD? Any known fixes? > > > > > > It's using one of the wierd math coprocessor instructions, probably > > > packed decimal or something equally dumb. You can: > > > > > > 1) Install a math coprocessor > > > > > > 2) Rebuild a kernel with the GNU math coprocessor emulator > > > (see /sys/i386/conf/LINT for instructions). > > > > What about on systems using a Pentium CPU which has the math > > coprocessor built in? > > It's not expecting strict IEEE exception handling. You should replace > your libm with the GNU version. Hmmm, okay but would this slow down the machine since the CPU already has the FPU built in... Richard