From:	Michael Feldman <mfeldman AT seas DOT gwu DOT edu>
Subject:	emulator for 387
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJGPP List)
Date:	Tue, 15 Nov 1994 21:46:43 -0500 (EST)

I had a strange experience just now. I made up a new batch file
to set up djgpp, in which in setting the go32 environment variable
I misspelled the emulator parameter "emu" as "emul". So presumably
it was not known that I needed the emulator (my 386 has no 387).

After compiling a program that used floating point, and running
coff2exe to create a standalone executable, I found, not surprisingly,
that the program crashed on the first FP instruction.

The strange part is that the original coff program, executed as, say, 
"go32 foo", did _not_ crash, but ran correctly.

How is this inconsistency explained? In neither case did go32 know
I needed emulation, at least not from the env variable. What gives?

Thanks!

Mike Feldman
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