bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: rlb@defaultvalue.org,  11913@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 21:51:24 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Doesn't it trigger SIGILL or SIGFPE?
> 
> That wouldn't tell us about abs and 8.0.

Right, but it should cause the program to crash.

However, since the CPU is a P4, I don't think my suggestion is a good
idea.  There cannot be any hardware problem with FP instructions on a
P4.