Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 08:12:04 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: cracauer@cons.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone using the none-GPL FPU emulator in -current? Message-ID: <199907222212.IAA22899@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>It seems the non-GPL floating point emulator is completely broken in >4.0-current. > >While it still boots the kernel and brings up the system, it seems to >cause every floating-point using userlevel program to coredump (i.e. >ping). ping uses sqrt(), so it was broken by not preserving FreeBSD defaults for TARGET_FLAGS in egcs (-mno-fancy-math-387 is specially for our broken emulator but is no longer the default). >Is anyone here using the non-GPL math emulator in 4.0? Installing a >4.0 snapshot on a FPU-less machine counts! Clearly there aren't many 4.0 users who actually need an emulator. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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