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From: st12a@menudo.uh.edu (richard henderson~)
Subject: Re: Floating point support in GCC
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.135942.18650@menudo.uh.edu>
Organization: University of Houston
References: <AWB.91Apr15132912@mink.uk.ac.ed.aipna>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1991 13:59:42 GMT

In article <AWB.91Apr15132912@mink.uk.ac.ed.aipna> awb@uk.ac.ed.aipna (Alan W Black) writes:
>The correct solution to the problem is to modifiy the GCC 386 machine
>description so that it never generates any 387 instructions.  This

Would not a better solution be to add a 387 emulator to the MINIX kernel?

I have recently ordered my copy of MINIX 1.5 as a cost-effective alt to Xenix,
and I am interested in persuing this topic.  However, I would be interested in 
hooking up with someone who knows the kernel a bit more intimately.

>Alan W Black                          80 South Bridge, Edinburgh, UK
>Dept of Artificial Intelligence       tel: (+44) -31 650 2713
>University of Edinburgh               email: awb@ed.ac.uk

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