Re: Does anyone have a netbsd-5 or earlier VAX to hand?

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

On 2012-05-27 14:54, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 05/27/2012 05:08 PM, Matt Thomas wrote:
> > OK.  Crashing on what instruction?  There is no polyd/polyf in libm anymore.
>
>    Hm.  Would it make sense to re-code that to use poly[df] instructions
> on machines that have them?  Would the run-time check be more trouble
> (or cycles) than it's worth?

I think the sane way is to actually just use poly[fd] all the time, and 
let the emulation handle it if the machine don't actually implement it 
in hardware.
No need for explicit checks, it's done automatically by the hardware.

        Johnny