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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Fri,  4 Jul 2008 18:19:39 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] signal.h in APE for newbies
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> 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?