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    SubjectRe: about relocs.c on x86
    Ingo Molnar wrote:
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    > ( Hey, and maybe someone is crazy enough to try to port the math-emu
    > code to 64-bit and boot Linux up on 64-bit with all user-space FPU ops
    > emulated. It would be one of the most useless hacks of all times, and
    > that certainly has a certain kind of sick appeal to it, doesnt it? ;-))
    >

    It'd take a lot of work, since the x86-64 ABI requires SSE2.

    -hpa



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