Re: Freeze on FPU exception with Athlon

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Nov 18 2000 - 12:17:44 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)

Compiler specific ?

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