On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Brian Gerst wrote:
> "Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
> >
> > On 16 Jan 2002, Christian Thalinger wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 15:32, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> > > > Can you also reproduce _without_ loading NVdriver, just to make everybody
> > > > happy.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Zwane Mwaikambo
> > > >
> > >
> > > Sure, same breakdown. Maybe it's really an dual athlon xp issue as dave
> > > jones mentioned. But shouldn't this also occur when i trigger a floating
> > > point exception myself? Is there a way to check which floating point
> > > exception was raised by the seti client?
> > >
> > > Regards.
> > >
[SNIPPED...]
> > into one array. Then you do the exact same thing with the results
> > put into another array. Then just `memcmp` the arrays! You run
> > this in a loop for an hour. If the kernel is mucking with your FPU,
> > it will certainly show.
>
> Hmm, that's an interesting idea... An Athlon optimised kernel does use
> the MMX/FPU registers to do mem copies. Try running a kernel compiled
> for just a Pentium and see if the problem persists.
>
Here's a progy.. This SHOULD run forever. I assume malloc() works and
don't check the result --yes I already know that.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <malloc.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <math.h>
#define MAX_FLOAT 0x100000
int main(int args, char *argv[])
{
unsigned int seed;
double *x;
double *y;
double *z;
size_t i;
x = (double *) malloc(MAX_FLOAT * sizeof(double));
y = (double *) malloc(MAX_FLOAT * sizeof(double));
(void) time((time_t *)&seed);
for(;;)
{
srand(seed);
z = x;
for(i = 0; i < MAX_FLOAT; i++)
*z++ = cos((double) rand());
srand(seed);
z = y;
for(i = 0; i < MAX_FLOAT; i++)
*z++ = cos((double) rand());
if(memcmp(x, y, MAX_FLOAT * sizeof(double)))
break;
seed = rand();
}
fprintf(stderr, "Floating point failure\n");
return 1;
}
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
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