Reporting bugs: there is nothing to gain in frustrating reporters

[Robert Dewar]

Toon Moene wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> Unfortunately, somewhere in the design process of the 8087 things went 
> wrong and the chip only handles 8 80-bit registers, not providing an 
> interrupt (or any other support) to an OS to fake the "virtual" 80-bit 
> registers.

This is nonsense. It is perfectly possible to extend the stack accurately
in memory. That is easily true on the 387, but was also true on the 8087
with just a little bit of fiddling (I know that some people thought this
was not possible, but they just did not look hard enough, the Alsys Ada
compiler for instance used a stack model for fpt, and dynamically extended
this stack in memory, so this is certainly possible).

> Hence our problems.

No, this has nothing whatever to do with our problems
>