Subject: Re: undefined stack.
To: Mike Pumford <mpumford@black-star.demon.co.uk>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 08/04/2001 10:44:18
At 06:41 PM 8/4/2001 +0100, Mike Pumford wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was just looking over the code and noticed that we currently use a per
> > process undefined instruction stack.  I was wondering if anyone knew why?
> >
>Could it be remains from the time when the port used FPE rather than
>soft-float for floating point support. When doing FP by instruction emulation
>wouldn't every process need its own state whilst processing an undefined
>instruction to maintains FP state for each process?

Then it can be ifdef'ed ARMFPE
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