Re: LC040 FPU emulation (was: Illegal instruction)

[Jakov af Wallby <jakov@vmlinux.org>]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Meelis Roos wrote:

[snip about EC040]

> A wild idea: if the appropriate exception is not generated, why do I get an
> 'Illegal instruction' exception? If I catch all the other exceptions and check
> whether there was a FPU instruction before the problem, would it help?

>         - Insertion of a NOP before the FPU instruction solves the
>           problem.

Now, _this_ is interesting! Couldn't the program loader be patched to insert
a NOP before any and all FPU instruction?
(Or am I way off now?)

I plan to compile all debian standard packages once I get my 68060 for
my Amiga.

Jakob