On Friday, July 30, 1999 10:31 AM, Eric J. Korpela [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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?
:
I see. Does anyone have any code for auto-detection of an 8087/8287/8387?
Admittedly ELKS probably doesn't need FP, but my MicroWindows main demo
does have a 3d graphics demo that requires floating point, it'd still be nice to run
it ;-)
gh
