From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 9 22:59:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA29467 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 22:59:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA29462 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 22:59:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA00768; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 22:57:13 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604100557.WAA00768@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Netscape's Atlas for FreeBSD Bombs To: richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Chang) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 22:57:13 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, mcs@vpm.com, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Richard Chang" at Apr 9, 96 06:46:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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... I'm surprised you have a problem. But the FreeBSD FPU is in spec, but not identical in behaviour to BSDI... specifically, exception handling, etc.. I don't know if the new Netscape is using some strange crap or not -- one would not expect it to do floating point at all. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.