On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Eric J. Korpela wrote:
> > ELKS doesn't yet support floating point. The bcc compiler libraries have
> > support for 32 bit floating point though. All ELKS float support will have
> > to come from bcc primarily, unless you're talking about OS support of math
> > coprocessors...
>
> On machines with coprocessors the the coprocessor state needs to be saved
> with the rest of the process context. Isn't being done now. Problem is it
> makes the context bigger and the swap longer. How long is an FSAVE on an
> 8087?
Can't we (you) mark in the process table if the process needs its F-registers saved?
Jakob
