From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 27 05:11:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA02617 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 05:11:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cons.org (knight.cons.org [194.233.237.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA02612 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 05:11:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cracauer@cons.org) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by cons.org (8.8.8/8.7.3) id OAA25489; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 14:10:40 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19980827141039.B25278@cons.org> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 14:10:39 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer To: Bruce Evans , cracauer@cons.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG, luoqi@watermarkgroup.com, shocking@prth.pgs.com Subject: Re: Floating Point Exceptions, signal handlers & subsequent ops References: <199808271054.UAA18772@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: <199808271054.UAA18772@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 08:54:37PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <199808271054.UAA18772@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans wrote: > I wrote the assembler code. Run it under gdb and look at the FP > state using `info float'. Homework: explain why this generates > only 6 SIGFPE's although it divides by 0.0 by 0.0 8 times. ^ Don't you mean 7? Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer Tel.: (private) +4940 5221829 Fax.: (private) +4940 5228536 Paper: (private) Waldstrasse 200, 22846 Norderstedt, Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message