Subject: Re: m68k soft float (was illegal instruction)
To: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
From: Victor Gallardo <goombaz@worldnet.att.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/11/2003 08:30:48
> The New Pastor
>
> The new pastor was visiting in the homes of his parishioners. At one house
>  it seemed obvious that someone was at home, but no answer came to his
>  repeated knocks at the door. He took out a card, wrote "Revelation 3:20"
>  on the back and stuck it in the door.
>
> When the offering was processed the following Sunday, he found that his
>  card had been returned. Added to it was this cryptic message, "Genesis
>  3:10."
>
> Reaching for his Bible to check out the citation, he broke up in gales of
>  laughter.
>
> Revelation 3:20 begins "Behold, I stand at the door and knock."
>
> Genesis 3:10 reads, "I heard your voice in the garden and I was afraid for
>  I was naked."
>
> Remember when the funniest jokes were the clean ones? They still are!
>
> A cheerful heart is good medicine... (Prov 17:22a)
>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 8:23 AM
> Subject: Re: m68k soft float (was illegal instruction)
>
>
> > A young soldier was in his bunkhouse all alone one Sunday morning
> > over in Afghanistan.  It was quiet that day, the guns and the mortars,
> > and land mines for some reason hadn't made a noise. The young soldier
knew
> > it was Sunday, the Lord's day.  As he was sitting there, he got out an
> > old deck of cards and laid them out across his bunk.
> >
> >
> >
> > Just then an army sergeant came in and said, "Why aren't you with the
rest
> > of the platoon?"  The soldier replied, "I thought I would stay behind
and
> > spend some time with the Lord."  The sergeant said, "Looks like you're
> going
> > to play cards."  The soldier said, "No sir, you see, since we are not
> > allowed to have Bibles or other  spiritual books in this country, I've
> > decided to talk to the Lord by studying this deck of cards."  The
sergeant
> > asked in disbelief, "How will you do that?"  "You see the Ace, Sergeant,
> it
> > reminds that there is only one God.  The Two represents the two parts of
> the
> > Bible, Old and New Testaments.  The Three represents the Father, the
Son,
> > and the Holy Ghost.  The Four stands for the Four Apostles: Matthew,
Mark,
> > Luke and John.  The Five is for the five virgins that were ten but only
> five
> > of them were glorified.  The Six is for the six days it took God to
create
> > the Heavens and Earth.  The Seven is for the day God rested after
working
> > the six days.  The Eight is for the family of Noah and his wife, their
> three
> > sons and their wives, in which God saved the eight people from the flood
> > that destroyed the earth for the first time.  The Nine is for the lepers
> > that Jesus cleansed of leprosy.  He cleansed ten but nine never thanked
> Him.
> > The Ten represents the Ten Commandments that God handed down to Moses on
> > tablets made of stone.  The Jack is a reminder of Satan.  One of God's
> first
> > angels, but he got kicked out of heaven for his sly and wicked ways and
is
> > now the joker of eternal hell.  The Queen stands for the Virgin Mary.
The
> > King stands for Jesus, for he is the King of all kings.  When I count
the
> > dots on all the cards, I come up with 365 total, one for every day of
the
> > year.  There are a total of 52 cards in a deck, each is a week, 52 weeks
> in
> > a year.  The four suits represents the four seasons: Spring, Summer,
Fall
> > and Winter.  Each suit has thirteen cards, there are exactly thirteen
> weeks
> > in a quarter. So when I want to talk to God and thank Him, I just pull
out
> > this old deck of cards and they remind me of all that I have to be
> thankful
> > for." The sergeant just stood there and after a minute, with tears in
his
> > eyes and pain in his heart, he said, "Soldier, can I borrow that deck of
> > cards?" -- Originator Unknown
> >
> >
> >
> > Please let this be a reminder and take time to pray for all of our
> soldiers
> > who are being sent away, putting their lives on the line fighting for
us.
> > Send this on so that we can have a multitude praying for our people and
> our
> > country.  God Bless America!
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Frederick Bruckman" <fredb@immanent.net>
> > To: "Izumi Tsutsui" <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
> > Cc: <john@sixgirls.org>; <sibagaki@lsi.melco.co.jp>;
> > <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>; <port-m68k@netbsd.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 9:48 AM
> > Subject: Re: m68k soft float (was illegal instruction)
> >
> >
> > > On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> > >
> > > > In article
> > <Pine.NEB.4.44.0303051017390.5663-100000@elation.immanent.net>
> > > > fredb@immanent.net wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > As for future releases, isn't sun2 userland built
with -soft-float?
> If
> > > > > so, it could serve with just a few additions. Then we could have
> just
> > > > > the two sets of sets, one for m68000 (-m68000 + -msoft-float), and
> one
> > > > > for m68k (-m68020 or -m68020-40 or -m68020-60).
> > > >
> > > > sun2 has different MACHINE_ARCH (m68000) and MID_MACHINE
> (MID_M680002K)
> > > > from other m68k ports (m68k and MID_M68K).
> > >
> > > But it's basically the same compiler, with different "specs" (i.e.
> > > different defaults). So if you compile a package with CFLAGS='-m68020
> > > -mno-soft-float' on m68000, you get the same binary as on m68k (no
> > > CFLAGS). Is that not true?
> > >
> > > Frederick
> > >
> > >
> >
>