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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 2000 16:22:12 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
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:  <200003102122.QAA18594@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000310133936.B14279@fw.wintelcom.net>
References:  <200003101756.JAA90710@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003102057080.79394-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> <20000310133936.B14279@fw.wintelcom.net>

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<<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.

-GAWollman

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