Re: [PATCH] Mask mxcsr according to cpu features.

From: Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Date: Fri May 09 2003 - 06:41:41 EST


> Clearing the DAZ bit of every 32 bit program as soon
> as it receives a signal can't be right.

No doubt, but changing could still break things. Perhaps there is some
program that depends on this behaviour (sets the bit by mistake and is
safed by some signal), and debugging such things is always
nasty. I try to keep the 32bit emulation bug-to-bug compatible to i386

-Andi
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