Subject: Re: floating point?
To: John Klos <john@sixgirls.org>
From: None <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/16/2003 19:59:34
> Hello,
> 
> > > LC_ALL=C ./temacs -batch -l loadup dump
> > > [...blah...]
> > > Loading float-sup...
> > > Illegal instruction - core dumped
> > >
> > > Do I need to use soft-float?
> > >
> > You need to make sure that you have not removed the NO_INSN_EMULATE option
> > from your config file when you compiled the kernel.
> 
> I thought that the option was supposed to be commented out. Correct me if
> I've got this wrong, but I thought that NO_INSN_EMULATE == do not emulate
> insn, as the hardware has it. So it'd be defined (uncommented) for good
> hardware (VAX cpus which have all the instructions), and undefined
> (commented, missing) for CPUs which are missing those instructions.
> 
Yes, you're correct. My fault, sorry, the option should of course be
left commented out.

-- Ragge