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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:23:53 +0300

> From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 21:51:24 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Doesn't it trigger SIGILL or SIGFPE?
> 
> That wouldn't tell us about abs and 8.0.

Right, but it should cause the program to crash.

However, since the CPU is a P4, I don't think my suggestion is a good
idea.  There cannot be any hardware problem with FP instructions on a
P4.