Enforcing soft-float.

[Andrew Duane]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-mips at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> mips at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Juli Mallett
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 2:42 AM
> To: freebsd-mips at FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Enforcing soft-float.
> 
> Greetings, people of mips@,
> 
> I think that at least with 64-bit kernels, MipsFPTrap should kill the
> running program.  Does anyone object to this?  The FP code is not even
> remotely 64-bit safe.  I don't care/dare to correct it.  Does anyone?
> 
> Thanks,
> Juli.

If it can't be done safely/correctly, it can't be done. I would think
killing the program would be appropriate.

Getting a wrong answer is catastrophic.

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Andrew Duane
Juniper Networks
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