Date: Sun, 13 Nov 1994 18:01:13 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: DJGPP & MATH
To: BILLM AT vaxc DOT cc DOT monash DOT edu DOT au
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>Aaron Ucko (ucko AT vax1 DOT rockhurst DOT edu) wrote:
>
>> I'd be about the last person to criticize GCC.  What I am criticizing is
>> DJGPP's (mis-)initialization of the FPU (which was mentioned in different
>> guise a little while ago)
>
>I must have missed that discussion (I skip most djgpp messages unless
>the subject line indicates something which might interest me).  Since
>you seem to be happy with gcc I guess that you are unhappy with the
>default action on the detection of an FPU error.  This is probably a
>"religious" issue.  I prefer to have the default of having the FPU
>cause an interrupt when an error is detected.

I also prefer having it cause an interrupt--the problem is that the program
doesn't _catch_ the interrupt (perhaps due to DJGPP's lack of signal support?)

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