On Don, 2002-10-17 at 20:20, David Hampton wrote: > 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 is, that's the point. gdb stops on it nevertheless. You can avoid that with handle SIGFPE nostop, but then you'll miss unexpected SIGFPEs... -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
