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Date:      Tue, 22 Jul 2003 05:03:35 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        peter@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Removing fpu emulator
Message-ID:  <20030722.050335.21271227.imp@bsdimp.com>
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In message <200307220811.h6M8BHIh059016@repoman.freebsd.org>, Peter
Wemm writes:
>  Log:
>  Initiate de-orbit burn for fpu-less operation.  386+387 is still
>  theoretically supportable, but you'd really be happier with FreeBSD 2.1.8
>  on it.

People should also note that a big reason for doing this is to improve
floating point support on FreeBSD.  The old floating point emulator
was getting in the way of those improvements.  I'd expect to see a
number of changes to libm over the coming days and weeks.  I'd also
hope to see long double support improved in i386 like it is in amd64
right now...

Warner
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