Re: Proper fix for SIGFPE on FreeBSD

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 15 Aug 2009, at 18:10, David Chisnall wrote:

> GNUstep currently does some asm magic to disable floating point  
> exceptions on FreeBSD.  This sometimes, coincidentally, works, but  
> often the flag is reset by various things.  This patch sets it via  
> the standard libm interface, which ensures that it remains cleared.

Thanks ... I didn't realise that the old fix was unreliable (don't  
recall seeing bug reports about it ... probably not too many people  
using FreeBSD).
It's good to have a better version.

Do you know if the issue applies to any other BSD variants?  If it  
does, perhaps we should use autoconf to test for the header and  
include/use the new fix on all BSDs rather than just on FreeBSD?