Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 12:48:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 12:47:51 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:20232 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 12:47:35 -0500 Subject: Re: Freeze on FPU exception with Athlon To: sorisor@Hell.WH8.TU-Dresden.De (Udo A. Steinberg) Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 17:17:44 +0000 (GMT) Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel) In-Reply-To: <3A16346B.CF99DF5F@Hell.WH8.TU-Dresden.De> from "Udo A. Steinberg" at Nov 18, 2000 08:48:59 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > I sure as hell hope this isn't an Athlon issue. Can other people try > > the test-program and see if we have a pattern (ie "it happens only on > > Athlons", or "Linus is on drugs and it happens for everybody else"). > > I've tried both variants (fesetenv and inline-asm) with glibc-2.1.3, > 2.4.0-test11pre7 and an AMD Thunderbird. Neither does freeze, but > both yield: > > Floating point exception (core dumped) Compiler specific ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/