On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 11:53:57AM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> What is the default?  Unless something in the single-user boot 
> facilities (init, sh, and a few utilities like ls, cat, and mv) need 
> FPU, I suspect that having an FPU should be the default, with the 
> ability for the administrator to select otherwise at installation time.

If you assume a FPU by default you'll end up with a system that won't run
properly on fpu-less system (for example, I think df or du need it).

> 
> Btw, what do you mean by "run-time"?  Per command?  That strikes me as 
> unreasonable, since FPUs don't, as a rule, come and go.

Yes, it's at shared library load time if I remember properly.
The overload is not measurable.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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