Re: exception handling poll

[David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>]

>>>>> Joel Sherrill writes:

Joel> This would work if NONE of the application used floating point.  But this
Joel> is a case where there are multiple tasks/threads running and you want to
Joel> specify on an individual basis whether a particular thread uses FP.  The
Joel> application must be linked with the HW FP math library. 

Joel> Does the distinction make sense?  

	I guess that I do not understand why you cannot have two versions
of the libraries and link with the appropriate library whether you want to
utilize hardware FP or not.  If you link with the appropriate HW FP math
library, why cannot all libraries be treated similarly?

David