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From:	Cesar Rabak <csrabak AT uol DOT com DOT br>
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Subject:	Re: RHIDE debugger fails to start on board without floating point unit
Date:	Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:33:54 -0300
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Charles Sandmann wrote:
> > If it does use floating point I think you are stuck, since the emulator
> > doesn't know how to handle floating traps in a different address space.
> 
> It doesn't need to, I think: the debug support in libdbg.a should do the
> necessary footwork for it to be transparent.  This should really be fixed
> some day.

Or, perhaps have some function just not to try so save x87 registers if
SET 387=N?

Just a quick thought. I haven't studied all the implications...

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