[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to this message on a mailing list ] Joost Witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I used to have a CYRIX 486, that gave me floating point errors. > This apparently was due to a bug in the CYRIX (wasn't there with > other 486's or pentiums). I have worked on an AMD 486 that had a floating point bug that always caused ghostscript to fail. Replacing the CPU fixed the problem. >> Are there vital packages (like libc maybe?) that are compiled with >> the assumption of a Pentium processor? I've lately (approximately >> but not exactly since I upgraded to libc 5.4.2x) started having >> machine failures with untrappable divide-by-zero errors. The >> machine is a 3 year old 486/33, so it's quite possibly hardware, >> but it struck me as something that could possibly be due to a >> change in libc or the like... maybe? ideas? help! You have to be more specific than this in a problem report. You *must* be able to tell us more about the problem. You didn't even mention basic information such as who manufactured the CPU. Dan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
