Re: FPU & -softfloat question

[Konstantinos Margaritis <markos%acropolis.net@localhost>]

On 30-Nov-97 Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> The only thing which has changed, is that NetBSD/Amiga has now (partial) 
> support for FPU-less machines. FPU machines have been fully supported from 
> day one.
 
> The only use of -fsoft-float I know of, is when compiling the kernel. The
> kernel itself doesn't issue FP operations (other than, to save, switch and
> restore floating point context on behalf of user processes).

:) I misunderstood this completely, though I just read in the changes file
-the huge one- that there has been implemented full fp instructions support
for the 68040 and 68060.

>       -is

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Konstantinos Margaritis
Student of Physics, at University of Athens, Greece
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