From: kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl
Subject: Re: Overflow error under Desqview
To: pcrowley AT qdeck DOT com (Peter Crowley)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 14:10:15 MET
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.30]


Peter Crowley writes:
> 
> I tried the sample, it does indeed crash DV and DVX. 117 is not a valid
> exception. debug32 reports:

Exception 117 (better known as 0x75) is the 'standard' numerical 
processor (80387) exception, and thus 'valid' as such.

> 
> It may be that fistp failed, probably an overflow and the exception was not
> handled.
>

The program code generates an overflow error, which triggers the
numerical processor exception. I think the question which was asked 
previously concernes the way DV/X copes with such exceptions.
(Surely hanging up isn't among the preferred ones, I guess :-)

Pieter Kunst (kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl)

PS: Peter, any news about a PC-NFS DV/X version ?