Re: NOT urgent: 586 assumptions?
Why is this URGENT? although quite a few people use 486's none
have reported problems like your's so it isn't all that urgent I think.
But, to give more info about your question:
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).
And, to reassure you: I've got quite a few 486-33 computers running here
with rahter recent "unstable" installations, none of them give
divide-by-zero errors.
>
> 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!
>
> --Zachary
>
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