Just F.Y.I.
I have found that the same Netscape binary running on FreeBSD 4.1
is much more reliable than that binary running on FreeBSD 3.x.
I attribute this to the change in how FPU exceptions are handled.
That is, Netscape is probably getting floating pt. underflows/overflows
which it does not handle. In FreeBSD 3.x, this dumped core,
in 4.1 it is ignored.
This may "improve" FreeBSD's reliability.
[Of course, it raises a question regarding 2.x compatibility;
shouldn't a 2.x binary continue to dump core on FPU exceptions,
even on a later system?]
- Dave Rivers -
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