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

[Programmingkid]

On Dec 24, 2012, at 6:29 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:

> 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.
> 

We could add an if condition to the mudivmod() function so that it returns zero if the denominator is zero and the architecture is PowerPC.