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| author | cracauer <cracauer@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-03-11 18:31:21 +0000 |
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| committer | cracauer <cracauer@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-03-11 18:31:21 +0000 |
| commit | 8df7f6ba726d6ab60fe74a6617d6a76ef6d8c3a4 (patch) | |
| tree | 7134bce9b836d22175a6e8c06caf2a64b3e1e6f3 /release | |
| parent | 3e5e4c28cee74907229406b61e3519c04bcc22d3 (diff) | |
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Note FPU exceptions default change
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| -rw-r--r-- | release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT | 8 |
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diff --git a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT index 346d5a0..1497b56 100644 --- a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -201,6 +201,14 @@ IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling over IPv6 or IPv4, and IPv6 TCP to IPv4 TCP translation gateway support. Protocol-independent name resolution functions have been added to libc (getaddrinfo, getnameinfo, etc). +Floating point exceptions for new processes (devide-by-zero, +under/overflow, invalid range etc.) are now disabled by default. Use +fpsetmask(3) to reenable those you need. Note that integer +device-by-zero is not covered by the FPU and will still trap after +this change. Also note that conversion of float/double to integer +where the float variable is too big now doesn't trap as well (it can't +be seperated from other operations we want masked). + 1.2. SECURITY FIXES ------------------- |
