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Re: divison by zero trap



On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Guenter Geiger wrote:

> Reading through all the -m switches for Alpha gcc 2.0.8 I realized,
> that "divison by zero trap" can not be disabled and has to be handled 
> by the kernel. At the moment the program execution just stops.
> I'll probably will ask about this topic on the AXP-Kernel list.

Ah, ok.  So the kernel has to have a trap handler enabled for this, eh?
I *believe* that there is one in the RedHat alpha patches, but I'm not
sure.  I'll poke around.  In the meantime, asking on the axp-kernel list
is a good idea :)

Chris


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