Apparently FreeBSD enables some HW floating-point exceptions by default.
This can cause core dumps when Python runs. Python relies on the 754- (and C99-) mandated default "non-stop" mode for FP exceptions. This patch from Ben Laurie disables at least one FP exception on FreeBSD at Python startup time.
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Tim Peters committed
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