RE: [MiNT] 030-only binaries

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Martin-Eric Racine
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 6:23 AM
> To: Thomas Binder
> Cc: mint@fishpool.com
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] 030-only binaries
>
>
> > On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 07:24:36PM +0300, you wrote:
> > > -m68881 means FPU functionalities will be used for all floating-point
> > > math, AFAIR.  Exerpt from GCC man page:
> >
> > Excuse me, maybe I'm missing something, but what code in the MiNT kernel
> > would really profit from that? I can't recall seeing any complex
> > floating point arithmetics that would justify special FPU instructions;
> > but as said, I'm maybe missing something.
>
> You are.
>
> We were talking about binaries in general, not just kernels. ;-)
>
> Example of this, the recent Pine 4.10 port by Juhani is compiled
> with -m68881 by default (unless someone removed it from Makefile
> and recompiled it), which several people complained aboubt.
>
> We were not discussing the benefits of using -m68881 either, just
> commenting on what default compiling switches can (should?) be
> expected.

Well sorry.

We were definitively discussing which sets of MiNT kernel binaries should be
distributed by default. Check the previous mails.