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Date: 18 Feb 2004 16:27:44 +0200
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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il>
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	Hans-Bernhard Broeker on 18 Feb 2004 10:48:11 GMT)
Subject: Re: Cross Platform Incompatabilites? - code fragments
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> From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: 18 Feb 2004 10:48:11 GMT
> 
> My memory may be failing me here, but I do seem to recall exactly that
> having been the case, at least once in the past.  Windows 9x seemed to
> re-set the FPU control word of a running DJGPP program in mid-stream,
> or at least allow that to happen, if some other process tramps over
> it.  I.e. it fails to guarantee keeping an FPU control word change
> alive over the duration of a DOS process.

I thought about something like that, but this could only have effect
on programs that trigger exceptions, no?