On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Floating points are used in places where you wouldn't expect them. When
> I tried to install Debian on piper, my Centris 610, even apt-get didn't
> work. I can't imagine why a package manager would need floating point
> instructions, but it seems to be used...
Doesn't glibc always initialize the FPU state, unless compiled with
-msoft-float?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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