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Re: PowerBook 540c



On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 12:07:56PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 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?

Hm, that could be it. I'm not really that familiar with the glibc and/or
kernel internals.

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