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Date:      Thu, 15 Jun 1995 18:53:15 EDT
From:      Christopher Provenzano  <proven@MIT.EDU>
To:        dufault@hda.com
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pthreads (was Re: DCE in BSD4.4-Lite) 
Message-ID:  <9506152253.AA13384@jimi.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Jun 1995 09:13:49 EDT." <199506081313.JAA04674@hda.com> 

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> Weston Ruch writes:
> 
> >   I would like to experiment with the DCE shareware available
> >   at gatekeeper.dec.com.  However, the DCE shareware
> >   requires POSIX 4.0 threads.  Have POSIX 4.0 threads been 
> >   implemented in FreeBSD?
> 
> Chris Provenzano's beta pthread package based on POSIX1003.4a Draft
> 8 with a few minor patches compiles and almost runs through its
> tests on FreeBSD 2.05B.  The test that fails is the
> floating point preemption test, which dies with a:
> 
> > pid 4510 (test_preemption_) exited with masked floating point exceptions 0x
> 4

I'm not sure that the test is even valid yet. I still have a lot of work to
test floating point on many platforms.

> 
> I'll bet bde can suggest a fix for this; I recall him commenting on
> floating point in signal handlers.

Any help would be appriciated.

CAP



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