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Re: floating point problem


Rini van Zetten wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm a newbie to ecos and just do some simple test.
> 
> I have create a redboot boot floppy for my i386 target, this works fine.
> 
> I'm able to compile and run the examples (eg hello.c).
> 
> But if i want to do some tests with a float in it. the sample crashes :
> It even crashes if i only declare a var as float.
> 
> It crashes in clits.hxx (line109) :Segmentation fault

Just checking the obvious, but do you definitely have an FPU? FPUs weren't
"standard" until the Pentium (and even some later Pentiums for the embedded
market don't have an FPU either).

If you do, then it may well be something to do with recent changes that
extensively altered the x86 FPU support, although the extra new features
are disabled by default, but perhaps something slipped through?

Jifl
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