GNU bug report logs - #11913
Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Rob Browning <rlb <at> defaultvalue.org>

Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:00:02 UTC

Severity: important

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #62 received at 11913 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 11913 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rlb <at> defaultvalue.org
Subject: Re: bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386
	machine
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:23:53 +0300

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: rlb <at> defaultvalue.org,  11913 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 21:51:24 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> 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.
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