From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3B49ECAD.76895397@mvista.com> Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 13:41:01 -0400 From: Dan Malek MIME-Version: 1.0 To: paulus@samba.org Cc: Gary Byers , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: giving up the FPU, MSR[FE0], MSR[FE1], and the FPSCR References: <15174.24815.352088.954640@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/