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Math Coprocessor Emulation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel P Kamalic)
Mon Feb 26 04:09:06 1996
From: Daniel P Kamalic <pocky@MIT.EDU>
To: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 04:05:08 EST
How do I enable math coprocessor emulation on NetBSD? I get strange
errors when running Netscape Java applets and Scheme.
For example:
(/ 5 2)
;Value:
;Hardware trap SIGSEGV
;Type D to debug error, Q to quit back to REP loop: D
Java sometimes gives me a no math coprocessor error that, when I just
now tried to repeat it, punted me directly out of Netscape.
I know there's math coprocessor emulation, and I know that it has
to be implemented. I just don't know how to do it.
Does anyone know?
(Incidentally, I'm running 1.0A on a Cyrix 486DLC-40 No built in FPU,
never added a coprocessor.)
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