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 Content-Type: text > > 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.