Re: port-i386/39299: FPU use in signal handlers is unsafe

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-i386/39299; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: port-i386/39299: FPU use in signal handlers is unsafe
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:39:53 +0000

 On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 05:45:02PM +0000, matthew green wrote:
  >>  I've been seeing the overt symptom of this again recently (teleporting
  >>  mouse pointer) - anyone else?
  >  
  >  the touchpad on my laptop jumps around a bit, but not quite in the
  >  same way it used to.  instead of jumping to the left always, it just
  >  sometimes ends up elsewhere on the screen.
 
 Yeah, it's not quite the same (for me, instead of sometimes zooming
 around it seems to only teleport specifically to the top left corner)
 but I wonder if it's not also a signals problem.
 
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 David A. Holland
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