On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 07:22:49PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> 	Would a good first step be to see if Bruce would be interested
> 	in updating his MKSOFTFLOAT changes to current and look at
> 	integrating them?

Yes.  I think that would be an excellent place to start.

> 	Ideally the mechanism should be extendable to other architectures
> 	so if someone did the MD work they should be able to build an
> 	i386-nofp distribution :)

Agreed.  PowerPC can benefit from this, actually, since some of the
(less "desktopy") variants lack an FPU.  I don't think PPC and m68k
are alone here, either.

-allen

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