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Hei Wojtek,
you can change the FPU exception mask to alter how floating point
exception are dealt with. This mask gets set in module Kernel and in
HostMenus. Maybe you can solve the problem here...
Regards
Andrew
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From: "Wojtek Skulski" <skulski{([at]})nowhere.xy
To: "BlackBox Mailing List" <blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 9:31 PM
Subject: [BlackBox] - Floating point exceptions
> Hi:
>
> does anybody know, or can point me to, a recipe how to disable floating
> point exceptions? We are getting trapped by an INEXACT f.p. exception
> thrown by an FPU in a vendor driver module, that we cannot modify.
> BlackBox is handling this exception, what means we cannot use the driver.
> If we could ignore the xception rather than handle it, we could then use
> the driver.
>
> I do not see any obvious place to change the exception handler behavior.
> Any hints will be most welcome.
>
> Wojtek
>
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