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From: duane@mauve.samsung.com (Andrew Duane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Looking for PD/Free floating point emulation for 68040
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Date: 9 Nov 90 19:57:06 GMT
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We are moving to the 68040 chip soon, and are looking for two pieces
of software relating to floating point operations.
	1) The '40 doesn't support all of the floating point
	   instructions the 68882 coporcessor did. We are looking
	   for some software to emulate this subset of operations.
	2) The exception frame for an unimplemented FP opcode is
	   an F-line (type 2) frame. The saved PC is the instruction
	   *AFTER* the bad one. Is backtracking to get the failed
	   instruction hard. If so, we would want to get some code
	   to do this.

We called Motorola, and they charge $5K plus some licensing stuff
that we don't need or want.

Andrew L. Duane (JOT-7)  w:(508)-685-7200 X122
Samsung Software America	 decvax!cg-atla!samsung!duane
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Only my cat shares my opinions, and she's Intel-based.