On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On 14 Jan 2002, Christian Thalinger wrote:
>
> > It seems the floating point exception is only raised with a new data
> > package. Is there a simple way to raise such a exception?
>
> New data package? And does the same behaviour re-occur after the fpu
> exception? ie programs start segfaulting etc. Can you try doing a "dmesg"
> after the segfaults and fpu exception and see if there is anything in the
> kernel ring buffer too.
>
> Regards,
> Zwane Mwaikambo
This will allow you to generate some math-errors and see if everything
works okay. By default, upon process creation, math errors like
/0 are masked.
/*
* Note FPU control only exists per process. Therefore, you have
* to set up the FPU before you use it in any program.
*/
#include <i386/fpu_control.h>
#define FPU_MASK (_FPU_MASK_IM |\
_FPU_MASK_DM |\
_FPU_MASK_ZM |\
_FPU_MASK_OM |\
_FPU_MASK_UM |\
_FPU_MASK_PM)
void fpu()
{
__setfpucw(_FPU_DEFAULT & ~FPU_MASK);
}
main() {
double zero=0.0;
double one=1.0;
fpu();
one /=zero;
}
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
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