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From: lotto@wjh12.UUCP (Jerry Lotto)
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Subject: Re: 80287 FLD ST(0) - causes my AT to hang!
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Date: Fri, 21-Nov-86 21:47:30 EST
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The fix for gnuplot is to add the following lines right before the longjmp
in fpe().

#ifdef MSC
	_fpreset
#endif /* MSC */

The floating point exceptions of past lives were leaving garbage on
the chip, eventually resulting in a stack overflow.