Re: Unexpected behaviour when catching SIGFPE on FPU-less system

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 21:30, Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> 
> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 20:44, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 09:13:18AM -0700, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
>>>
>>>> What we used to use was what I *thought* was an old public domain
>>>> program whose name was an English word that had something to do with
>>>> being exacting.  Googling with obvious keywords didn't turn it up.
>>>
>>> Is it paranoia by any chance?  Paranoia is available as single files at:
>>>
>>>  http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/software/ieee/paranoia.c
>>>  http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/software/ieee/paranoia.h
>>
>> You also need
>>
>> http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/software/ieee/args.h
>>
>> Ran fine on:
>>  - Toshiba RBTX4927 (with FPU :-)
>>  - Mikrotik RouterBOARD 150 (without FPU), using an older 2.6.x OpenWRT 
>> kernel
>
> and runs into an endless loop around line 806 when built with
> a softfloat toolchain (gcc-4.4.3).

I used my kernel cross-toolchain (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115
(prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-21)),
with Debian libs, and -static to make it run on the RB150.

I retried with the OpenWRT toolchain (also 4.1.2, presumably
softfloat) I had still lying around,
and it worked, too. I got small differences in the last 2 digits,
though, so I guess it actually is
softfloat.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                                            -- Linus Torvalds