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From: Rez <rividh DOT minusthispart AT earthlink DOT net>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP 2.02: redir.exe on FPU-less machine...
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 16:56:05 -0700
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > crash.log always ends with:
> >         FPU unavailable at eip=4f19; flags=3246
> >         eax=00000000 ebx=00000007 ecx=37fcb98d edx=37fcb98d
> >         esi=00098f3b edi=00001eca ebp=00098920 esp=000988e8 cs=a7
> >         ds=af es=af fs=8f gs=bf ss=af error=0006
> 
> This message comes from CWSDPMI, not from Make or the emulator.  I have
>never seen anything like this before.  If this problem persists after you
>start using the patched emulator, you will have to investigate some
>more. No one of the development team has access to an FPU-less machine,
>so all we can do is set 387=n and assume this produces the same behavior
>as on a machine without an FPU.

Just in case it's helpful to know..
I've seen something very similar to this (variously "FPU unavailable"
and a dump like the above, or "FP exception" with no dump) from CWSDPMI
on a system with a known-buggy CPU (Intel P24T "Overdrive" which is an
83MHz 486DX. This CPU also caused OS/2 to commit seppuku with an
"internal processing error at location [long address]".)

What hardware do you need for testing, and what needs to be run to get a
good test? I have these boards here that I could set up with some
reasonable amt of memory (up to 16mb) if you've got something smallish 
that would work to test against 'em:
386SX16 w/ 387SX16
386SX40, no mathco
386DX40 w/ 33MHz mathco
386DX40, no mathco
486SX25, no mathco.

Yes, I do have a weird collexion of old hardware :)

~REZ~

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