Floating point exceptions with -pthread
Daniel Eischen
deischen at freebsd.org
Tue May 3 06:54:31 PDT 2005
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Marc Olzheim wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I was wondering whether it was safe to use floating point calculations /
> libm functions with 5.4-STABLE's pthread library on HT+SMP. I keep
> getting floating point exceptions on places where they should not
> happen... :-(
Yes, it should work fine. If you can verify the problem exists
(or doesn't) on -current, that might help. It sounds like FPU
context isn't getting saved/restored correctly in the kernel.
--
DE
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