Subject: Re: Floating point traps
To: Ian Dall <dall@HFRD.DSTO.GOV.AU>
From: Matthias Pfaller <leo@dachau.marco.de>
List: port-pc532
Date: 08/24/1995 12:05:57
> With lites for the pc532, I have a problem with floating point
> traps. When a floating point trap happens, the pc points at the
> instruction which faulted.  Most processes just core dump on a SIGFPE,
> so there is no problem, but recently I discovered that if a process
> trys to either catch or ignore SIGFPEs, then the execution takes the
> same trap immediately. Hence, you get stuck infinitely repeating the
> same trap.

Nice you mention it. I had the same problem this sunday when I tried
to get knews running on the 532. Fixing the bug in knews did help :-)

> The question for port-532 folks is, "What does netbsd do with floating
> exceptions?"

NetBSD does the same thing as Lites.

	Matthias