FPU Emulator broken in 2.1.5

Brian Blackmore (bnb@looking-glass.org)
Tue, 22 Oct 1996 20:24:07 +-100


It seems that somewhere between 2.1.1 and 2.1.5 the FPU emulator has
been broken. Attempting to boot 2.1.5 on my 386SX gives the following error
looping around and around

FPU emulator: Unknown prefix byte 0x??, probably due to
FPU emulator: self-modifying code! (emulation impossible)

(not sure what the ?? was, it may even have been different in each case)

Commenting out the code that produces this error causes the emulator
to fall in a heap later, so its not just the check thats wrong.

-- 
Brian