Subject: bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:21:35 +0300

> From: Rob Browning <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:50:38 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Does that 386 machine have an x87 co-processor?  If not, what provides
> > the floating-point emulation -- the kernel?
> 
> It's a P4 Xeon, so it should have x87 support:

Yes, of course.  You said "386", so I somehow thought it was a _real_
i386.

Then I think the only thing that will help is run this under a
debugger.