alpha/72024: LONG_MIN / 1 sends a "Floating exception"

[peadar at freebsd.org (Peter Edwards)]

The following reply was made to PR alpha/72024; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Edwards <peadar_(_at_)_freebsd_(_dot_)_org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit_(_at_)_FreeBSD_(_dot_)_org, ppelissi_(_at_)_caramail_(_dot_)_com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: alpha/72024: LONG_MIN / 1 sends a "Floating exception"
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 03:12:19 +0100

 Er,
 After realising that this source came from NetBSD, I checked their CVS 
 repo, and found it already fixed there with an equivalent patch.
 
 There's also an equivalent in the kernel: 
 /usr/src/sys/alpha/alpha/divrem.m4. The kernel case might be a security 
 issue if you could find a syscall that would do arbitrary (assuming not 
 by zero!) division of 64-bit values.