Re: SIGFPE in Radeon 7500 DRI support

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Re: SIGFPE in Radeon 7500 DRI support



On 17 Oct 2002, David Hampton wrote:

>Date: 17 Oct 2002 11:20:11 -0700
>From: David Hampton <hampton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: Michel Dänzer <michel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Cc: xpert@xxxxxxxxxxx
>Reply-To: xpert@xxxxxxxxxxx
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>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


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