[OpenBIOS] testing Max OS X boot on latest trunk (revision 1080)

Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk
Mon Dec 24 12:29:21 CET 2012


On 23/12/12 04:53, Programmingkid wrote:

>> That would be incorrect, by all standards. Indeed, Solaris uses divide by zero as a fatal error indicator during the boot process, knowing it will trap.
>
> But this isn't Solaris we are working with, this is Apple software. Division by zero equals zero.

As Tarl points out, division by zero is really undefined. Hence we need 
to make this behaviour customisable on a per-architecture basis so that 
we can provide the workaround just for PPC.


ATB,

Mark.



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