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From: bpalmer@BBN.COM (Brian Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: 68040 math support in 4.4?
Message-ID: <lf01l0INNnuv@news.bbn.com>
Date: 29 Oct 92 15:43:28 GMT
Reply-To: bpalmer@BBN.COM (Brian Palmer)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
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Will the BSD 4.4 libm.a math lib support the 68040 directly?  Has anyone
ported the library to the 68040?  The '040 only supports a subset of the
68881 instructions.

Just thought I'd ask before I port it myself.


Thanks,
Brian

PS What!?  A non-386BSD posting!!