On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Jun Sun wrote: > I favor the libc approach as it is faster. No difference in speed, actually. In both cases you switch to the kernel mode when an FPU-related exception happens and then back to the user mode, either after or before invoking the handler. The libc approach has the advantage of running unprivileged. > Unfortunately I don't think glibc for MIPS can be configured with > --without-fp. I modified a patch to get glibc 2.0.6 working for no-fp config, > but it is not a clean one. Is anybody working on that for the latest glibc > 2.2? You never want to configure glibc with the --without-fp option. > Ironically for MIPS you MUST have the FPU emulater when the CPU actually has a > FPU. :-) The same for Alpha. You don't need a full emulator anyway -- most of it can be left out for FPU-equipped systems. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
