Quoting "Michael M. Press" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Fri, 9 Mar 2007 18:10:25 -0500):
> > I think i've seen somewhere but i don't remember that floating point
> > arithmetic is not allowed in kernel space, if that's right, can anyone
> > please tell why ???
> > and why not not emulate the floating point in kernel space ???
>
> That's nonsense! Floating point arithmetic is absolutely allowed in
> kernel space, it's just that user space applications don't tend to
> like their data being mangled very much.
>
> I remember this topic coming up a short while ago on this list.
> Perhaps if there is sufficient need someone could implement a pair
> of floating-point save/restore functions to allow floating-point
> (or MMX) calculations to be used in the kernel only when needed.
> Something like the EngSaveFloatingPointState/
> EngRestoreFloatingPointState functions that Windows has.
Have a look at the FPU item on the ideas page. There you find a patch
for something like this.
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Alexander.
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