> >From: David Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 05:06, Michel D�nzer 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/
SSE is the SIMD instruction set of the Intel architecture
which was first introduced in the pentium 3 architecture
where the processore core was codenamed "Katmai". Okay, now you know.
Dont let me go into the depth of codenaming now. ;-)
-Alex.
