On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 04:35:27PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:

> - i386 has a libm387.so.0 which is used if the sysctl
>   machdep.fpu_present is true. It contains FPU using versions of
>   various maths functions. Something similar could be done for the vax
>   libm and/or libc, but this only benefits dynamically linked
>   binaries.

this has been suggested for other ports as well.  (sparc, at least...)
sounds like it would be worthwhile to extend the mechanism past i386.

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