From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id: <9608021415.AA10614@clio.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: NextGen 586, Floating point woes
To: Demmer AT LStM DOT Ruhr-Uni-Bochum DOT De
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 09:15:15 -0600 (CDT)
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <43E98E506FA@brain1.lstm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> from "Tom Demmer" at Aug 2, 96 03:58:22 pm
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> > Setting 387 to Y causes hard crashes (taking out Windows, for example) on
> > boxes I tried without FPUs for a couple of reasons.  
> That's what anybody would expect. Exactly the same behaviour as TC in 
> those old 286/287 days. So what?

If the processor can't do a fninit sequence without puking, I doubt you 
will be able to do anything else with it either, so setting 387 to Y 
probably won't do anything execept move the error someplace else.  The
source is available; if implementing "Y" fixes the problem then send DJ
a patch, but let's not put anything in which doesn't do good for someone.