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From: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 68040 Compatibility Warning
Message-ID: <22169@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 5 Jun 91 13:53:02 GMT
References: <22049@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Jun1.175626.3234@wintermute.north.de> <1991Jun4.111333.31246@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Reply-To: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Jun4.111333.31246@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> markv@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>[Copyback issues removed]

>Another compatibility question, do the 2.0 math libraries have the
>code to handle exceptions from the 040 for the 881/2 transcendental
>functions that are no longer in hardware on the 040?

No.  The 68040 boards will have to come with the 68881/2 emulation softare.
This is due to both legal issues and ROM/disk space since the 68881/2
software emulation is "Over 32K and under 64K" in size.  (I can not make a
final code size guess yet)

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