mpc8xx fpu emu

[Kumar Gala]

Dan,

> Even when you don't enable the kernel FPU emulation, we still emulate a
> few FP instructions.  This is to allow programs that use absolutely no
> floating point to work with the generic FPU PowerPC libraries.

Can you elaborate on this?  Why exactly is this done?  Is it because
glibc has some minor FP code @ startup?

thanks

- kumar


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