Re: Using float emulator on a system with FPU?

[Mike Smith]

> > I suggested about half a year ago that we should officially desupport
> > non-FPU configurations in 4.0.  Unfortunately, my resolution was
> > soundly defeated.
> 
> Why shouldn't we? Noone uses machines without FPUs anymore. What non-ancient
> CPU doesn't have an FPU? And we're talking about the i386 family here...

Lots (and I mean _lots_) of embedded systems use fpu-less 386 and 486 
cores.  Alienating users of these systems would be a dumb idea.

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