Subject: Re: Centris question again
To: wormey@eskimo.com (Space Case), Joe Faber <joefaber@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
From: Ken Nakata <kenn@eden.rutgers.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/03/1996 11:17:06
> I'm not sure of the status of the FPE, but for my tests, I'll be plugging
> in a full '040 and running off ramdisk.
Just FYI:
You shouldn't usually get disastrous result with FPE on an FPU-less
box, but it is better to replace the math library with another one
which avoids the FPU instructions which aren't supported by FPE yet.
It's just like the i386 port *by default* shipping math library using
minimal FPU instructions (since i386 FPE emulates only fadd, fsub,
fmul, and fdiv).
The FPU-less math library is found at:
ftp://puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us/private/kenn/
Don't forget to read the README there.
ken