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Date:      Thu, 6 May 1999 06:42:51 +1000 (EST)
From:      John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, jb@cimlogic.com.au
Subject:   Re: Math emulation is broken in sys/i386/isa/npx.c
Message-ID:  <199905052042.GAA28793@cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199905051819.EAA23864@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "May 6, 1999  4:19:16 am"

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Bruce Evans wrote:
> >Rev 1.67 of npx.c changed a #ifdef SMP to #ifdef 1, preventing the
> >test for the hardware coprocessor. This breaks support for 386 processors
> >without math coprocessors. Grrr.
> 
> It was also broken a month ago by changing TARGET_DEFAULT from
> (MASK_NO_FANCY_MATH_387 | 0301) for gcc to 0301 for egcs.  This mainly
> permits egcs to emit fsqrt instructions.   This can be worked around
> by using the GPL'ed math emulator or rebuilding everything affected
> with CFLAGS+=-fno-fancy-math-387.

Well at least at that time I could _boot_ the kernel. Now it just hangs.

-- 
John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/
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