Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:08:43 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, 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: <20000310140843.C14279@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200003102122.QAA18594@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 04:22:12PM -0500 References: <200003101756.JAA90710@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003102057080.79394-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> <20000310133936.B14279@fw.wintelcom.net> <200003102122.QAA18594@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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* Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> [000310 13:58] wrote: > <<On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:39:36 -0800, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> said: > > > 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? > > The fact that the IEEE standard says this is the default state. I haven't had the time to test this, but integer divide by zero is still trapped? And you're right, using fp on solaris/irix doesn't bomb out when doing / 0, but does for integer math. thanks, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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