Re: port-i386/51561: Illegal instruction on Vortex86SX

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The following reply was made to PR port-i386/51561; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: coypu%SDF.ORG@localhost
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: port-i386/51561: Illegal instruction on Vortex86SX
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 14:45:25 +0000

 For the benefit of others reading, it is because the CPU
 does not have an FPU.
 
 Now is the question of how hard it is to build a soft float userland
 on i386.
 
 If it's encouraging, some architectures use just soft float, so the
 control knobs are there (MKSOFTFLOAT).