On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 01:58:26PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Nate Lawson writes: > > On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > Given that it (apparently) happens on X servers compiled months ago, > > > my gut feeling is that it is a bug in the kernel floating point > > > context save/restore in the presence of signals. > > > > > > I still can't run X without crashing the *kernel* because of the > > > conglomeration of hacks that was added to i386/machdep.c to paper-over > > > floatingpoing problems after the latest KSE brea^W import. The > > > last machdep.c that works for me is 1.539. This has been dragging > > > on for nearly 2 weeks. > > > > > > Drew > > > > I don't know how to say this strongly enough but can someone PLEASE PLEASE > > fix this properly? It is preventing real work from getting done. > > I think we're all waiting for Julian and Jonathan Mini to fix this.. > It would probably help if they had some sort of a test program that > could duplicate the bug in a controlled setting without a lot of > confusing application software running..
Did anyone test -current with the various FP test suites people posted about last week? Kris
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