Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 18 Nov 2000 19:33:37 +0100 | From | "Udo A. Steinberg" <> | Subject | Re: Freeze on FPU exception with Athlon |
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Markus Schoder wrote:
> My test program caused the exception (and the freeze) > unintendedly in the return statement since the > division was optimized away as Brian pointed out.
It's quite strange that I cannot seem to trigger the problem here on my machine.
> I know of another guy with the exact same CPU (Athlon > Thunderbird 900MHz) and mainboard (ABIT KT7-RAID) who > has the same problem. > > I use gcc 2.95.2 to compile the kernel.
Makes me wonder whether it could be an issue with your board (I have an Asus A7V) or with gcc 2.95-2 (I use egcs-1.1.2).
> Note that cpuinfo shows model 4 whereas e.g. Brian had > model 2 if that means anything.
Mine is a model 4 also, so if it's related to that, I should probably see the problem here as well.
/proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 4 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 807.000213 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes features : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow bogomips : 1608.91
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