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