> This looks a lot like an ix86. What generation, I don't know. Lst time I remember explicitly knowing that my box had a >math coprocessor, I was running a 386. I believe the Pentium chip pulled the functionality back into the CPU. >
that must be exactly it. the x486 was same thing. You needed an extra co-processor math chip. Some P machines still have room for them. It woudl be hard to find which exact OP is trying to use that. Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Joseph Newton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jenda Krynicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 9:20 AM Subject: Re: Coprocessor while running perl 5.4 (dos version) > Jenda Krynicky wrote: > > > > Exiting due to signal SIGNOFP > > > Coprocessor not available at eip=00019634 > > > eax=000c20a0 ebx=00081240 ecx=00081240 edx=000c20a0 esi=000c5018 > > > edi=00000000 ebp=00000000 esp=000c1d84 Program R:\PERL.EXE > > > > What are the CPUs of the machines that do this? > > This looks a lot like an ix86. What generation, I don't know. Lst time I remember explicitly knowing that my box had a math coprocessor, I was running a 386. I believe the Pentium chip pulled the functionality back into the CPU. > > I ouwld suspect that this is a problem with the basic machine, rather than with Perl per-se. > > Joseph > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
