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Date:	Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:32:39 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: loading of wsock32 disturbs FPU
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On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:37:42PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Mar  2 15:31, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>On Mar 2 13:33, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>Hm.  We probably need to put a finit instruction into the autoload code
>>>somewhere.  wsock_init () looks like just the place......  now if I
>>>just persuade the CVS code to build without a SIG11 (grmbl grmbl....)
>>
>>Hmm?  -v please.
>
>I just added an finit call to wsock_init and it seems to work fine.
>
>Are there any non-FPU CPUs >= i386 out there which would choke on this
>machine instruction?  I guess not, but I'm not exactly fluent in ix86
>history...

I mentioned to Corinna on irc that I don't think that just calling finit
is the right way to handle this.  What if someone had already set the
precision as they liked?  Then loading winsock would reset it.

cgf

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