> but still something like this might be needed in the future perhaps for
> MMX emulation on non-MMX processors (even thought I don't think that will
> ever be needed considering the small increase in speed mmx gives... but
> there is/will be similar extensions...)
How about something akin to VMWare... you could emulate the protected
instructions.
Maybe the right way would be to have a simple program (call it "fpuemu"?)
that registered the handlers, and then forked and exec'd such that traps
from the child were also caught?
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