Re: lynx-dev Henry's Lynx/Win32 old crash: floating point operations

[Doug Kaufman]

On Fri, 21 May 1999, Leonid Pauzner wrote:

> While trying my DJGPP compiled lynx.exe at DOS another machine
> I got a crash when loading lynx_users_guide.html
> but lynx_main_help.html and other small files were loaded OK.
> Something similar was reported by Henry long ago with his W32 binary.
> ... 
> Then I remembered that this CPU have no floating point operations so I set
> a correct path to DJGPP's 387 emulation driver and everything now OK.
> 
> The question is: what does these strange floating point operations used by
> lynx for long files and not used for short files?

I don't know about the floating point operations, but thanks for
the report. This makes me feel better. I have been linking the DOS
executable that I distribute with wmemu so that this would not be a
problem, but hadn't heard of actual floating point problems. I had
worried that I was making the executable larger without a good reason.
If anyone wants to include wmemu in their own executable, be sure to
compile your own libwmemu.a, since the precompiled library available
from the DJGPP archives is incompatible with the current version of
DJGPP.
                            Doug
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