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Re: 4.01 panic/lock issues?
abs%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
> > Anyway, using -m68040 on building packages is too bad..
>
> I believe that the performance penalty of -m68020 on 040 boxes
> is great enough that there is real benefit for using -m68040.
> Defaulting to -m68020-60 would reduce that need significantly...
As seen in this thread, -m68040 binaries trigger
a fatal FPU_EMULATE bug and panics on 020/030.
Even if FPE is fixed, they still cause SIGILL or wrong results
on 020/030 unless we implement FPE functions for 040/060 specific
FP instructions. (-m68020-60 is safe of course)
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Izumi Tsutsui
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