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Re: Signal 8

Just to confirm, FPE, floating point or fixed point?

<quote who="Seth Arnold">
u> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 04:52:00PM -0500, Raghu R. Arur wrote:
u> >    i really dont know what this signal is for.
u> 
u> kill -l
u> 
u> 8 is SIGFPE on my system -- floating point exception.
u> 
u> For the original poster -- don't use floating point in the kernel. If
u> you do, you need to modify the context switch code to properly handle
u> the floating point registers.
u> 
u> -- 
u> http://immunix.org/



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