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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>,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include npx.h
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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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