Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 18:26:38 -0700 (PDT)
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: Symify crashes in Windows Dos box
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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At 11:19  6/10/1997 +0300, you wrote:
>
>On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Nate Eldredge wrote:
>
>> I might have expected a crash from when symify tries to look at video memory
>> (or however it works), but not a SIGFPE! Anybody know anything about
>> this/have time to debug it?
>
>IMHO, there's nothing to debug here.  The original program crashes
>with SIGFPE because it tries to use garbage as an FP number.  Nothing
>new here.  `symify' crashes because Windows doesn't reset the FPU
>after the first program crashes; nothing new here either.
Then maybe the handler that aborts the program on receipt of the signal
ought to reset the FPU. It seems like a bad idea to leave the system unstable.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net