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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:39:36 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        Martin Cracauer <cracauer@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include npx.h
Message-ID:  <20000310133936.B14279@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003102057080.79394-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>; from dfr@nlsystems.com on Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 08:57:18PM %2B0000
References:  <200003101756.JAA90710@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003102057080.79394-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>

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* Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> [000310 13:32] wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> 
> > cracauer    2000/03/10 09:56:33 PST
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/i386/include     npx.h 
> >   Log:
> >   Change the default FPU control word so that exceptions for new
> >   processes are now masked until set by fpsetmask(3).
> 
> Excellent!

Is there any reason for doing this other than so we can emulate
linux's bog^H^H^H nifty ability to divide by zero?

What's the point of this except to mask obvious programming error?

I'd really like to see this backed out.

-Alfred


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