Re: MATH_EMULATE

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty%porchlight.ca@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 08:03:44AM +1100, Daniel Carosone wrote:
 
>  - Removing MATH_EMULATE from the kernel *doesn't* mean machines
>    without FPU can't run netbsd, or won't be supported. It just means
>    that they will need their binaries compiled with -msoft-float,
>    rather than relying on emulated cpu insructions.  This will be
>    faster anyway, and such machines these days will be used for
>    special-purpose cases and will benefit in other ways from
>    special-purpose builds specific to their needs. 

If that is the only difference, then would it be a trivial (and possibly
automated) to have an i386-nofpu port that tracks i386 except for the
compiler option?  Make a change to i386 and the automated part generates
the same change in i386-nofpu.  The source code would be the same, just
with different binaries.

Doug.