On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:31:50PM +0200, Heikki Suonsivu wrote: > I would suggest to keep MATH_EMULATE in (and fixing it) instead of > dropping support or making separate soft-float port. I have been > looking if MATH_EMULATE could be brought back to FreeBSD or > -msoft-float could work out there, and my current view is that making > a soft-float work seems equally complex as keeping MATH_EMULATE alive, > and does have a cost of keeping all separate installation > infrastructure and package trees. (a) MATH_EMULATE is slow. (b) Keeping all the overhead in userland is not as bad. (c) Serious, you are talking about hardware with limited computation power -- binary compatibility is not such a big deal for that. That said, I have to take a look at how much work -msoft-float really is. I would be willing to fix it. Joerg