Re: Goodbye UAE?

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1 total messages Started by DanC Tue, 14 Apr 1992 14:43

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Author: DanC
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 14:43

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In article <72170034@otter.hpl.hp.com> slo@otter.hpl.hp.com (Steve Loughran) writes:

>The possible extra details are:
>
>	a General Protection Fault
>	a Divide by Zero
>	a Stack Fault
>	an Illegal Instruction
>	a Page Fault
>	a Not Present Fault  	(what's this - device related?)
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If you have read the 80386 book from Intel (ok, ok who has anyway :-)),
you might know that a "Not Present" fault refers to an attempt to
access a segment that is not present.  However, Microsoft may have
defined another meaning for "not present" fault.

>	an Application Fault	(pretty specific this one)
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Sounds a bit like Application Error, doesn't it?  Arrgh!  UAE is still
here.  Perhaps this is the Invalid TSS fault, which if it is, it is
usually not the fault of your application, rather it is a fault of 
Windows!

>	Segment Load Failure
>	Out of Selectors

There seems to be a few faults missing from this list.  I wonder
whatever happened to "Double Exception" and "Coprocessor Error"?

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