Re: SIGFPE resolution?
--- Thomas Evans <tom@23palmer.net> wrote:
> Has there been any resolution to the SIGFPE issue on
> pre-EV6 Alpha and Debian (just had another crash that
> pissed me off)?
It appears that anyone who favours having the upstream
coders write code without NaNs etc. is considered an elitist
nerdy schmuck.
> I really hope that no one is doing severely high
> performance, mission critical, FP code on pre-EV6
> alphas these days, so I really feel that defaulting
> all Debian built Alpha images to IEEE shouldn't be
> a big deal.
I do all of my presieving and some of my testing for
my PIES project on a pre-EV6 alpha. No, it's not
exactly mission critical, but it _is_ high performance,
and it is FP code. (And it doesn't depend on IEEE
nappy-changing as it doesn't shit itself.)
http://primes.utm.edu/bios/top20.php?type=project&by=PrimesRank
Performance is very important to me, with the rider that
I can only run code on machines I can afford (or borrow).
> Rememebr EV6+ Alphas do not have this problem because they are
> compliant - just those of us with older machines that
> just occassionally want to use Konqueror or sketch
> something in Kivio are being affected (yes, I know, report
> the damn platform specific bug and someday it may be fixed,
> or better yet fix it myself ).
Many of the modern applications assumemuch more than IEEE, they
assume you've got a honking great processor with vast tracts of
RAM. My EV56 is brought to a crawl by GIMP, and Mozilla takes
30s to load -- I wouldn't wish running those on a anyone with a
150MHz Jenson.
> If someone out there states that -mieee is gonna kill
> their 150Mhz Jensen, I would argue that at this point
> all it could do is make the machine with Debian installed
> more useful out of the box for someone that happens
> to inherit the machine.
So when am I going to 'inherit' an EV6+? And off whom?
I'd dearly like to know, and dearly like it to be soon.
Elitist nerdy schmuck Phil
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When inserting a CD, hold down shift to stop the AutoRun feature
In the Device Manager, disable the SbcpHid device.
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