Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 09:19:55 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: fredex AT fcshome DOT stoneham DOT ma DOT us
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: linux+dosemu with djgpp
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On Thu, 1 Aug 1996 fredex AT fcshome DOT stoneham DOT ma DOT us wrote:

> > Do you mean that other programs that use floating point (except Make) run
> > on your system?  Try to write a trivial program that does some FP
> > computations and see if it bombs. 
> > 
> What I thought was happening wasn't as weird as what IS happening.
> It's true that if, under DOSEMU, I don't set both 387=N and 
> EMU387=c:\djgpp\bin\emu387.dxe that gcc won't run--it bombs with an
> FP exception. 

That's a known bug (which nobody knows how to fix, unfortunately).  It is 
mentioned in the DJGPP FAQ list (section 11.1).

> wonder why this program won't PRINT the result. I'd also sorta expect
> that since the Linux kernel does FP emulation, that DOS programs would
> lean on that capability without NEEDing a dos-level emulator. But then
> what do I know? :-)

I don't think Linux FP emulator is available to programs which run under 
DOSEmu.