Re: [MiNT] Libcurl-ssl / RPM package

[m0n0 <ole@monochrom.net>]

Am Montag, den 14.06.2010, 17:13 +0200 schrieb Vincent Rivière
<vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>:
  
> 
> On GCC 2.x, -m68020 means 68020 without FPU.
> On GCC 4.x, -m68020 means 68020 with a mandatory FPU.
> This is a difference.

Thanks, that answers my previous question I just posted... 

 
> The problem with floating point is the fact it is imprecise by design: 
> there are rounding errors. Most of times, it doesn't matter because they

> are extremely small.
> But encryption/decryption software needs to be 100% accurate. I suspect 
> these algorithms to use integer math only.
> Well, I don't know.

Many ports of the openssl library require an FPU, like Openssl 0.9.6 for
Atari or like the OpenSSL version for Amiga with an 68881, so is this
really a problem? It sounds really logical to me, but then... why all these
ports require an FPU? 

Is there anybody out there who can say something accurate about it? :)

Greets,
Ole