On 17 Oct 2002, David Hampton wrote: >Date: 17 Oct 2002 11:20:11 -0700 >From: David Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; > protocol="application/pgp-signature"; > boundary="=-8s6sbAjyd7r4JyTRNESM" >Subject: Re: SIGFPE in Radeon 7500 DRI support > >On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 05:06, Michel Dänzer wrote: >> > Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception. >> > 0x40771fbb in gl_test_os_katmai_exception_support () >> > from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/radeon_dri.so >> > (gdb) bt >> > #0 0x40771fbb in gl_test_os_katmai_exception_support () >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> This is such a wonderfully expressive function name, why doesn't anybody >> read it? :/ > >Yes, it is a nice expressive name, but my expertise is in network >protocols not in video drivers. I don't know what Katmai is, why I need >it, why its not in my Red Hat kernel, where to find it, or why the lack >of it is crashing every OpenGL application on my computer. If this >function is expected to create a SIGFPE, why isn't it trapped and >handled?
It's actually a poorly named function all around IMHO. A better name would be s/katmai/sse/ -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
