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I've read several mentions in the freebsd-smp list that some aspect of
Floating Point does not work.

I was wondering, does the SMP kernel thus use software FP emulation, or
am I at some risk of failure if I run programs using FP?

Thanks,
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Brian Litzinger
brian@mediacity.com