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

[Luiz Emediato <lgemedia%terra.com.br@localhost>]

Hi there,

I have a copy of NetBSD 4.0.1 Mips which runs on my DEC 5000/240.

Luiz

On 05/27/2012 08:33 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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