Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 18:20:43 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Symify crashes in Windows Dos box
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On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> >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.

It's probably better to do that in the exit code, not in the SIGFPE
handler (somebody could install a signal handler for SIGFPE that just
returns, and then the program would leave the FPU scrogged on exit).