This question may have been answered on macbsd-development, but I'm not on
that list.  I don't mean to criticise (since I love the work done so far),
but. . .

What is the big deal about support for fpu-less machines?

I'm sure that a complete trap-emulation package must be available from
Motorola, and probably other places as well.  It might require translating
to a new assembler format or some such (is that the answer?) but all that
should be needed is to load the routines and put the right vectors in the
trap tables.  I doubt the package is so big that you couldn't leave it
there all the time, and if you leave the trap vectors there all the time
that shouldn't be a big deal either since you can stick whatever vectors
you want into the entries that don't get used if an FPU really is there.

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Henry B. Hotz       hotz@libra.loral.com
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