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From: "Derek" <djny AT flashmail DOT com>
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Subject: Does LWP need a coprocessor?
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Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 19:09:10 -0600
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I compiled a program that uses the LWP multitasking library but was unable
to run it on a 386 machine. I got this message:

Exiting due to signal SIGNOFP
Coprocessor not available at eip=000035e7
...


My machine does not have a math coprocessor. Is this why the program won't
run?

If this is so, is there any other alternative I could use for
multithreading?

Or maybe I don't need to multithread? Here's my situation: I need to
constantly monitor the serial port while also doing a second countdown timer
from 15. To the best of my knowledge, the timer would require using sleep(1)
but this would also pause the serial checking loop if I had both processes
in the same function. So is there any other option besides multithreading?

Thanks,

Derek Young