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Article #870Re: Division by 0 crashes OS2/2.0
From: Andrew Little
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 13:49
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 13:49
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In article <92Sep04.024410.14613@acs.ucalgary.ca> bauwens@acs.ucalgary.ca (Luc Bauwens) writes:
>In article <1992Sep3.131306.13751@tc.cornell.edu> bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
>
>>>>>The following short program compiled with MS-FORTRAN 5.0 with
>>>>>coprocessor crashes OS2 Ver. 2 on my machine:
>>>>
>
>I am inclined to believe the other poster (sorry, forgot his name)
>who says it may be hardware-related.
>
>But in my case, it's not an issue of the known bug in some 486
>motherboards: I am running this on a 386-25 (an old Mylex motherboard
>that I have normally found quite reliable) and (*here it gets
>interesting?*) an IIT FPU *not an Intel*.
^^^^^^^
FYI, we have been able to crash our 386 Unix box (Interactive 3.2)
with divide by zeros when we used this FPU, and don't have the same
problem with Intel.
Andy Little BALR Corporation
andy@balr.com Software Solutions in Real Time
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!newsserver.pixel.kodak.com!laidbak!tellab5!balr!andy From: andy@balr.com (Andrew Little) Subject: Re: Division by 0 crashes OS2/2.0 Message-ID: <1992Sep08.134945.5154@balr.com> Organization: BALR Corporation, Oak Brook, Illinois. References: <92Sep03.032755.21494@acs.ucalgary.ca> <1992Sep3.131306.13751@tc.cornell.edu> <92Sep04.024410.14613@acs.ucalgary.ca> Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 13:49:45 GMT Lines: 23