[RFC] MIPS division by zero and libgcj...

Thu Jun 10 20:28:00 GMT 2004

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 08:31:47PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> I thought that the MIPS never generated a hardware trap for division,
> but instead there was an assembler macro that did the test for
> overflow, and the "div" instruction actually generates this test
> inline. Maybe do a disassembly to check.

Linux/MIPS's behaviour is consistent with all MIPS UNIX flavours I know
of both those following the SysV ABI and others such as Ultrix.
 Ralf