On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Allen Briggs wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 07:22:49PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> > 	Ideally the mechanism should be extendable to other architectures
> > 	so if someone did the MD work they should be able to build an
> > 	i386-nofp distribution :)
>
> Agreed.  PowerPC can benefit from this, actually, since some of the
> (less "desktopy") variants lack an FPU.  I don't think PPC and m68k
> are alone here, either.
>
> -allen

All PowerPC processors used in Macs and PPC workstations have FPUs, it is
the Altivec (aka Velocity Engine) unit which is not always present, and
it's a SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) unit that handles
vector-like instructions, not an FPU.  So an FPU-less compile for PowerPC
wouldn't benefit anyone I can think of.

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Nathan Raymond