Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 20:51:17 +0200
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Subject: Re: v1: floating point on 386, v2 FAQ 11.1
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> From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
> Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 17:56:56 +0100 (MET)
> 
> While messing around with v1 I noticed I got the problem mentioned in
> FAQ 11.1, i. e. no emulation unless I set the 387 environment
> variable.

If you are messing with v1.x, you need to read a v1.x version of the
FAQ ;-)

> However the setting according to the FAQ (387=N) doesn't work, while
> 387=YES does.

I think in v1.x, you couldn't force emulation.  I don't remember why,
though.  Perhaps because v1.x didn't call the DPMI functions for the
emulation?  (In fact, FP emulation didn't work at all in v1.x when
running in DPMI mode.)

> Perhaps this setting was inverted in v1?

Hmm?  What did you meant to say by that?

AFAIK, the problem mentioned in the FAQ doesn't exist in v2 for at
least two releases, so if you are trying to find an explanation for
that problem, you can relax.