> We are now several decades later, but for compatibility reasons the FPU on the x86 processors still uses the same logic. It is possible to get the exception at the place > where it happened by inserting fwait instructions after every fpu operation. Those tell the cpu to stop executing until the FPU has finished executing the previous > instruction. That obviously slows down the code significantly. FPC has no option to do this.
It is a pity. I think this would be a very useful option for development. Will the team consider adding this ? :-)
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