At 10:28 AM +0100 2000/3/21, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> It is an i386 assembler instruction. Obviously, operating system
> vendors thought it's not their business, but the compiler's.
> Unfortunately, gcc doesn't care (although most other native compilers
> like SRC m3, CMUCL, SML/NJ do).
Note that I have recently heard some complaints about Perl in
this respect -- Perl considers it to be a hardware issue, and code
that depends on a SIGFPE will not necessarily function the same under
the same version of Perl, running on different OSes.
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