> > Though, not many thing in userland really use the FPU that much ... except
> > the compiler may do bad things like emit floating point ops for inlined
> > memcpy's, etc.  That would be a major lose.
> 
> Does MIPS GCC really generate such code ?

It probably does, but someone should check.

On unix workstations with no block move instruction and guaranteed hardware
floating point, it's not such a bad idea, and that's where most GCC ports
get written.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ best.com