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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: fernanbolando@mailc.net, 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] signal.h in APE for newbies
Date: Fri,  4 Jul 2008 18:19:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <74e6c91c9b771978f68b4f7430ae3cc2@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1d5d51400807040717xbf9fbf7v7466ae0394b77255@mail.gmail.com>

> Any chance this [fp signals in APE] is some 9vx issue?

vx32 converts SIGFPE to the SIMD SSE/SSE2 trap 19, but
9vx expects only x87.

i had wondered the other day whether there were AMD/Intel processors
in common use that supported x87 but not SSE/SSE2.  should 8c start
using SSE as the plan 9 amd64 compiler does? could it support that exclusively?




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-04 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-04  8:17 Fernan Bolando
2008-07-04  9:59 ` Charles Forsyth
     [not found] ` <a85d07977219d1010dd930280d4b013e@terzarima.net>
2008-07-04 14:17   ` Fernan Bolando
2008-07-04 15:54     ` Russ Cox
2008-07-04 17:19     ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2008-07-04 17:21       ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-04 18:04         ` Charles Forsyth
2008-07-04 18:14           ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-04 19:22       ` Russ Cox

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