In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:28:04 +0200, Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > I'm going to work on FreeBSD's floating point support, but I need to
> > test my changes on systems using the FPU emulators (non-GPL and GPL).
>
> I suggested about half a year ago that we should officially desupport
> non-FPU configurations in 4.0. Unfortunately, my resolution was
> soundly defeated.
Is the discussion you mentioned archived somewhere / was it on a
public list? I'd like to read about the technical complications that
arise from non-FPU support.
Another class of machines I'd like to support are 486sx laptops, which
make a nice system to run around-the-clock in a home environment.
Also, there are many old (donated) PCs in the third world, eastern
europe and Hamburg-Altona, a market that may become important, given
the number of capable programmers who live there.
I don't expect the work I'm going to do (FP exceptions) to be
difficult to support on non-FPU machines, so I'm going to get a
non-FPU machine to test it.
Martin
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