pc386dx exception 6 was Re: 4.6.0pre2 and docs released

[Angelo Fraietta]

Joel Sherrill wrote:

>Software floating point exceptions SHOULD be a "coprocessor unavailable"
>or #7.  
>
Yes, looking back at the email from January 2001, it was an exception 7

>
>I am suspicious that the CPU is not an Intel variety and should be
>treated
>as a different CPU model.  If Angelo can track the address down to a
>single
>instruction (ala printed message plus objdump) and tell us the CPU
>model, 
>we can confirm or discredit that.
>
As stated in another email, I just tested with a genuine intel 386dx and 
it also failed.

>
>>-- Chris Caudle
>>
>

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