Via: uk.ac.ulcc.vmsfe; Mon, 11 Oct 1993 10:55:12 +0100
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 93 10:55 GMT
From: "Kevin Ashley, Systems Development, ULCC" <CZIWKGA AT VMSFE DOT ULCC DOT AC DOT UK>
To: DJGPP <DJGPP AT SUN DOT SOE DOT CLARKSON DOT EDU>
Subject: Summary: Re: Novice question on FP use and emulation

Thanks for all the replies I received about gcc and floating point on
a 486 system. As many of you guessed, my machine has a 486SX chip as
opposed to 486DX, and the SX chips don't support floating point.
Now I know what the difference is, something I haven't seen in any
amount of PC advertising/marketing material.

It still seems that there is something strange about how the CPU behaves
which means that the behaviour of the standard djgpp emulator isn't
correct. I'll investigate further and report on this list if I have
any firm conclusions. Thanks again to all those who took the time and
trouble to reply - it's appreciated.
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Kevin Ashley                              K DOT Ashley AT Ulcc DOT ac DOT uk
Systems Development Group Manager         ...ukc!ncdlab!K.Ashley
University of London Computer Centre.