Subject: Re: floating point fails
To: Brian Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
From: NetBSD mailing list <nbsd@righi.df.unibo.it>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/18/2001 09:14:53
Hi,
what is the specific Kernel option to enable the emulation ??
May I know it ?
thanks

Rick

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Brian Chase wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Chuck McManis wrote:
> 
> > Actually Rick is referring to the POLYD instruction that isn't present on
> > the 4000/60 and 4000/90 and so has to be emulated. If you haven't
> > configured your kernel to emulate this instruction you get an illegal
> > instruction trap when you try to execute FP code in some apps.
> 
> Ahh.. my bad.
> 
> -brian.
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