On Mon, 30 Dec 1996 00:42:04 -0600 (CST) 
 Scott Reynolds <scottr@Plexus.COM> wrote:

 > I can't say why the flag is there for certain, but there should be no
 > floating point code left in the kernel, at all.

The flag is used to keep the compiler from emitting floating point
instructions.

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