Subject: Re: Exercises in patience -- NetBSD/i386 1.5 on a 4Meg 386DX/25
To: Henry Nelson <henry@irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp>
From: Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/05/2001 18:25:31
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Henry Nelson wrote:
> Is the following option only "useful" for 386DX machines that do NOT
> have a 387 math processor installed?  Is it pointless to include this
> option when a 387 math processor is installed, or when the cpu is 486
> and higher?
> options         MATH_EMULATE    # floating point emulation

man 4 options

     options MATH_EMULATE
     Include the floating point emulator.  This is useful only for CPUs that
     lack an internal Floating Point Unit (FPU) or co-processor.
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