From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: 387 emulation problem
Date: 24 Mar 2000 13:32:23 GMT
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Andrew Hakman (hakmana AT hotmail DOT com) wrote:
: Doesn't anyone know anything about 387 emulation anymore?
: According to the FAQ, all one should have to do is link in libemu.a with
: -lemu (and it should increase the executable by 20K), but when I try
: this, the size doesn't change, emulation doesn't happen. Is there a
: special header I need to include to use the FP emulation functions, or
: should linking in libemu.a make the default ones work.

: Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
: (Would like to start PARALLEL PROCESSING Mandelbrot Fractals accros an
: IPX/SPX network SOON, but can't because slave computers are all 386's
: without math co's, and as anyone who has experience with fractals knows,
: you need doubles to make it work!)

The performace will probably be abyssmal.

Anyway, to help you, we need a little more information:
DJGPP version, gcc version, binutils version, command line used to
compile.

What is the (exact) error messages you get when running the program.


Right,

							MartinS