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I've got all of the SPARCstation 2's cache diagnostics passing. Now I'm on to the FPU diagnostics, which are even more brutal. I swear these tests were the product of a brilliant, but sick, mind.

First it tests storing a double-precision value to an unaligned address. Fair. Then it tests single-precision arithmetic. Also fair. Then it tests the five exception types. Still fair. Then - Exception and Timeout Test. Wait, what? I'll tell you what.

There's a divide, with a divisor of zero, then a store of the FP register containing the result into unmapped memory. If you emulate FP instructions synchronously, as I do, the divide by zero exception will be taken, handled, then a memory exception occurs from the store.

But FP insns happen asynchronously. The IU will move right on to the store insn, but since the store source is the in-flight FP reg, the CPU will interlock on the FPU during execution. The zero-divide exception hits, then the exception handler returns to the instruction after it.