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Date:      Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:50:31 -0700
From:      Juli Mallett <juli@clockworksquid.com>
To:        "Jayachandran C." <c.jayachandran@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-mips@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Enforcing soft-float.
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 07:41, Jayachandran C. <c.jayachandran@gmail.com> w=
rote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Juli Mallett <juli@clockworksquid.com> =
wrote:
>> Greetings, people of mips@,
>>
>> I think that at least with 64-bit kernels, MipsFPTrap should kill the
>> running program. =C2=A0Does anyone object to this? =C2=A0The FP code is =
not even
>> remotely 64-bit safe. =C2=A0I don't care/dare to correct it. =C2=A0Does =
anyone?
>
> Looks like we share this code with NetBSD. I have not looked in
> detail, but the NetBSD code seems to have the ifdefs for n64. Any idea
> if we can just import it?

We could, and we could update MipsFPTrap and friends from NetBSD (or
even do it by hand), but that's not something I want to do since I
don't need to run binaries compiled to use hardware floating point.



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