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From: Dan Malek <dan@mvista.com>
To: paulus@samba.org
Cc: Gary Byers <gb@gse.com>, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: giving up the FPU, MSR[FE0], MSR[FE1], and the FPSCR
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 13:41:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B49ECAD.76895397@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 15174.24815.352088.954640@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com


Paul Mackerras wrote:

> I believe that does work and that glibc uses it.  Not that that is the
> ideal way to handle it...  Albert Cahalan's suggestion of setting
> FE0/FE1 based on the disposition of the SIGFPE signal is a good one.

There was some discussion about how we handle the exception flags
in FPSCR a long time (a year or more :-) ago.  A search of the
archives may turn up something (I haven't searched).  I know there
was a change to the library and the user ability to set this flags
way back then.......


	-- Dan

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-09 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-26 14:10 giving up the FPU, MSR[FE0], MSR[FE1], and the FPSCR Gary Byers
2001-07-07  1:07 ` Paul Mackerras
2001-07-09 17:41   ` Dan Malek [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-28 22:32 Albert D. Cahalan
2001-06-29 15:16 Mark Hatle
2001-06-29 18:29 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-06-29 21:03 ` Mark Hatle

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