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Re: loading of wsock32 disturbs FPU
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:37:42PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Mar 2 15:31, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>On Mar 2 13:33, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>Hm. We probably need to put a finit instruction into the autoload code
>>>somewhere. wsock_init () looks like just the place...... now if I
>>>just persuade the CVS code to build without a SIG11 (grmbl grmbl....)
>>
>>Hmm? -v please.
>
>I just added an finit call to wsock_init and it seems to work fine.
>
>Are there any non-FPU CPUs >= i386 out there which would choke on this
>machine instruction? I guess not, but I'm not exactly fluent in ix86
>history...
I mentioned to Corinna on irc that I don't think that just calling finit
is the right way to handle this. What if someone had already set the
precision as they liked? Then loading winsock would reset it.
cgf
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