Date: Tue, 9 Sep 97 15:27:50 EDT From: luoqi@watermarkgroup.com (Luoqi Chen) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape Communicator 4.02b7 Message-ID: <9709091927.AA26659@watermarkgroup.com>
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> > Incidentally, the latest pig, communicator403b8, is available from > > /pub/communicator/4.03/4.03b8/english/unix/freebsd/base_install > > ftp.netscape.com . In the > > directory. > > Have they cleared up any of the weirdness with SIGFPE? (What I mean is that > I notice my copy of 4.02b7 likes to hang when it exits...an investigation > with GDB showed that it was SIGFPE'ing, then continuing, then doing it > again, over and over, in a loop that eats all my CPU. I have to kill -9 it > to make it go away.) Netscape is ignoring SIGFPE, so an exception could completely screw up the fp stack. One solution is to change __INITIAL_NPXCW__ in npx.h to mask all exceptions (could anyone tell me why this is not the default?). -lq
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