Compiler fixes for the Pentium FDIV bug?

jjnvdm@firga.sun.ac.za (J.J.N. van der Merwe)
Wed, 30 Nov 1994 23:00:17 GMT

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From: jjnvdm@firga.sun.ac.za (J.J.N. van der Merwe)
Keywords: architecture, question, 586, comment
Organization: University of Stellenbosch
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 23:00:17 GMT

Does anyone know whether Borland has a patch for C++ 4.02 that circumvents
the Pentium floating point division bug? One can of course patch every
occurrence of a '/' and '/=' in your code, but this is a very laborious
task. It seems that the most elegant solution would be to have the
compiler implementing the patch.


Thank you
Jaco


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