On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 08:43:23AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > > > > At 02.19 23/04/99 +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > > > >FreeBSD defaults to signal floating point exceptions in case of > > >overflow and things like that. Linux, I take it, does not. > > > > > >Short of correcting the program, I think there is a system wide > > >setting to turn off floating point exceptions. > > > > :-) can you input more verbosely ? > > Like in, explaining what to do? :-) I don't know how to change the > setting, I'm not even 100% sure it exists. Try listing sysctls. If you really want to do this globally, try this patch to src/sys/i386/include/npx.h: --- npx.h.orig Sun Jul 20 07:06:44 1997 +++ npx.h Fri Jan 15 22:42:23 1999 @@ -142,5 +142,6 @@ void npxinit __P((int control)); void npxsave __P((struct save87 *addr)); #endif - +#undef __INITIAL_NPXCW__ +#define __INITIAL_NPXCW__ __BETTER_BDE_NPXCW__ #endif /* !_MACHINE_NPX_H_ */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
