Subject: Re: -msoft-float question
To: None <scottr@og.org>
From: Masami and Ken Nakata <masami@fa2.so-net.or.jp>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/19/1997 17:16:07
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997 23:37:26 -0600 (CST),
Scott Reynolds <scottr@og.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Allen Briggs wrote:
> > 
> > This is in the kernel compilation to make sure that there are no floating
> > point instructions in the kernel.
> 
> Underline this double.  As a matter of principle, the kernel should avoid
> all floating point instructions, always.

Not that I have any objection to this principle, but what's the
rationale?  Or have I not tried hard enough to read through the Daemon
book... ;-)

Ken