Re: Freeze on FPU exception with Athlon

From: Udo A. Steinberg (sorisor@Hell.WH8.TU-Dresden.De)
Date: Sat Nov 18 2000 - 02:48:59 EST


Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> I sure as hell hope this isn't an Athlon issue. Can other people try
> the test-program and see if we have a pattern (ie "it happens only on
> Athlons", or "Linus is on drugs and it happens for everybody else").

I've tried both variants (fesetenv and inline-asm) with glibc-2.1.3,
2.4.0-test11pre7 and an AMD Thunderbird. Neither does freeze, but
both yield:

Floating point exception (core dumped)

-Udo.
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