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Re: MATH_EMULATE




To: christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)

Subject: Re: MATH_EMULATE

From: Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost>

Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:32:40 +0100


christos%astron.com@localhost said:
> Building a soft-float userland seems to be the right solution

I fully agree -- it would just have looked a bit more professional
if it had been done before removing the kernel support, and if
the consequences for binary compatibily were documented.
(The latter are rather dire for FPU-less systems. This needs to
be mentioned in the release notes.)

best regards
Matthias




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MATH_EMULATE
From: Andrew Doran

Re: MATH_EMULATE
From: Aaron J. Grier

Re: MATH_EMULATE
From: Christos Zoulas




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