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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: cracauer@cons.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Anyone using the none-GPL FPU emulator in -current?
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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


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