Warp wrote:
>   When I ask about any concrete evidence that any operating system out
> there is planning to actively deny access to the FPU, all I get is
> material which talks about compilers migrating to SSE in 64-bit systems,
> which has nothing to do with the issue.

Guess what ABI you need to use to call your operating system functions that 
take floating-point arguments on x86-64? Hmm, you guess right: You put them 
in SSE registers. And you cannot copy directly between SSE and x87 registers 
(you need to go through memory). That is called "deprecated by an operating 
system".

And maybe you ought to look up the word "deprecated" in the dictionary. It 
is *not* a synonym for "deny"...

	Thorsten

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