>in a nutshell gcc is doing FANCY_MATH_387 (or its modern equivalent) and
>generating floating point calls which aren't emulated in the kernel.
>this is a showstopper for FPU-less 80386 machines.  (486SLC and 486SX
would be in trouble as well).

you forgot the NexGen Nx586  ;-)

>
>the easiest thing would be to drop support for these older machines, but
>it could be something as simple as FANCY_MATH_387 sneaking back into our
>in-tree GCC configuration.
>

yes it would be very nice to have every 387 command in NetBSD.

Best Regards
Stephan