Charles Baker wrote:
[snip]
>      -xarch=sparcfmaf
>                   Accept instructions defined for  the  sparcfmaf
>                   version   of   the   SPARC-V9   ISA,  plus  the
>                   UltraSPARC  extensions,  including  the  Visual
>                   Instruction   Set   (VIS)   version   1.0,  the
>                   UltraSPARC-III extensions, including the Visual
>                   Instruction  Set  (VIS)  version  2.0,  and the
>                   SPARC64  VI   extensions   for   floating-point
>                   multiply-add.

Does the kernel provide an emulation trap for the case that the CPU
doesn't implement the multiply-add instruction (or will the loader look
at the capabilty bits in the ELF object and prevent that an application
loads such a library ?) ?

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Bye,
Roland

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