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Re: [MiNT] 030-only binaries



> Von: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]Im Auftrag
> von Martin-Eric Racine
> Gesendet am: Sonntag, 18. April 1999 18:25
> An: Julian Reschke
> Cc: kellis; Konrad Kokoszkiewicz; Thomas Binder; MiNT mailing list
> Betreff: Re: AW: [MiNT] 030-only binaries
> 
> On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Julian Reschke wrote:
> 
> > What's the difference of FPU enabled versions? Just that they 
> check the _FPU
> > cookie and care about saving the FPU registers during a context 
> switch? In
> > that case, I don't think it makes sense to support non-FPU versions...
> 
> -m68881 means FPU functionalities will be used for all floating-point
> math, AFAIR.  Exerpt from GCC man page:
> 
>  -m68881
>               Generate  output  containing 68881 instructions for
>               floating point.   This  is  the  default  for  most
>               68020-based  systems unless -nfp was specified when
>               the compiler was configured.

Believe me, I know that.

But since when is MiNT doing float math?