> On 2/1/1997 at 6:27 PM -0600, you wrote:
> 
> > 2) This machine has a 68LC040, (i.e. no FPU).  As such, it is likely to
> > cause frequent seg faults and illegal instruction errors while running
> > until someone manages to fix the bug in 68LC040 floating point emulation.
> 
> Hey... I don't have much of a clue, but this little bug is the only thing
> holding me back from actually running NetBeastie on my system. While I'm
> not a math person and I haven't ever done any work on a Unix kernel, I am
> fluent in C and I have a good nose for bugs. Is there anything that someone
> sans a working NetBSD setup can do to help track down this bug? If there
> is, I'd dearly love to help. I have an old CodeWarrior compiler, so I can
> generate code without having a working gcc, and I have enough free time to
> take on a new project.

I'm not too sure who to ask about this one, although Ken Nakata along 
with a couple of other people were working on fixing this.  The bug is 
not Mac-specific, but affects all the m68k-based ports which have 
machines with the 68LC040.

> PS: As I've reported before, I've had NetBSD running, but it segfaulted an
> awful lot, so I wasn't able to do anything reliably. Now, however, I have a
> bit more disk space to devote to NetBSD, and I'd love to get something
> running.

Yeah, these seg faults are a common symptom of the FPE bug.  About the 
only other thing I can say is that you can take a look at the source 
code, currently available from ftp.netbsd.org.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
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