1. RE: Floating point hardware
- Posted by rforno at tutopia.com Aug 02, 2002
- 418 views
Oops. I meant force the non-use of FP Hardware, i. e., using emulation to avoid the early Pentium fp bug. ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Subject: Re: Floating point hardware > > Ricardo Forno writes: > > I am translating REFMAN.DOC into Spanish. > > I found in a Performance Note that ex.exe will use > > routines contained into it to simulate floating point > > hardware if not present. It says that these routines > > may reside in Windows, implying that this applies > > to exw.exe. But what about exu/Linux? > > exu uses hardware floating-point instructions. > I assume that if the hardware isn't present, Linux will > emulate f.p. with software, just like Windows does. > In any case, I don't provide you with any f.p. options on Linux. > The percentage of machines that don't have hardware f.p. > is very small and getting smaller. > > > And what about forcing the use of FP hardware under exw.ex and exu? > > f.p. hardware, if it exists, will be used when you run exw and exu. > You don't have an option. There is nothing to "force". > > Regards, > Rob Craig > Rapid Deployment Software > http://www.RapidEuphoria.com > > > >
2. RE: Floating point hardware
- Posted by rforno at tutopia.com Aug 04, 2002
- 412 views
I know that, Rolf. This is only for the translation of Refman.doc to Spanish. Regards. ----- Original Message ----- From: <r.schr at t-online.de> Subject: Re: Floating point hardware > > rforno at tutopia.com wrote: > > > > Oops. I meant force the non-use of FP Hardware, i. e., using emulation to > > avoid the early Pentium fp bug. > > My wish would be to force the use of FP hardware. But there could be a > switch (i.e. with FPSOFT) to change this. Have in mind: the FP software > (which is used only under DOS) is in a certain number range not as > accurate as the FP hardware is. Only in case you have not changed the > corrupt Pentium you should use the FP software. > > Have a nice day, Rolf > > > >