Re: [MiNT] 030-only binaries

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com>]

> 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.

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