Subject: Re: mysterious problems from floating-point emulation?
To: Damiano Giorgi <damianogiorgi@tiscalinet.it>
From: Bruce ONeel <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/09/2004 17:10:40
Hi,

THanks, no problem!

cheers

bruce

Damiano Giorgi <damianogiorgi@tiscalinet.it> wrote:
> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 15:28:39 +0100
> From: Damiano Giorgi <damianogiorgi@tiscalinet.it>
> Subject: Re: mysterious problems from floating-point emulation?
> To: port-mac68k@NetBSD.org
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> 
> Bruce ONeel wrote:
> 
> > I tried to figure out why my (theoritically) not
> > broken LC040 system seemed to get a randomally trashed stack
> > when it hit an F instruction but I was never sucessful.
> 
> How do you tell if your LC040 is broken or not? I've got an LC 475, and 
> I've always been wondering whether its LC040 is a "good" or a "bad" one. Is 
> there some kind of test you can run? Or maybe looking at some serial number 
> on the chip?
> 
> Anyway, since I installed the softfloat sets on your site, the old pizza 
> box has never ever segfaulted again. Thanks for compiling those sets, and 
> for making them available!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Damiano Giorgi