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From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [ppc patch] soft-float
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:18:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410071118.13954.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041006101814.GA31270@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>

On Wednesday 06 October 2004 12:18, Tomas Ebenlendr wrote:
> This can be done with integers, if we define some 'human big number
> format', or so. But I think that FP/FPE is more generic problem,
> because of modularity of grub.

But, IMO, floating point is not required for boot loaders. I admit that 
floating point is convenient, but I don't see many cases where floating 
point is useful in the context of boot loaders.

Okuji



  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-07  9:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-03 23:46 [ppc patch] soft-float Hollis Blanchard
2004-10-04 11:24 ` Marco Gerards
2004-10-06  7:10   ` Stefan Reinauer
2004-10-06  8:57     ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-10-06  9:59       ` Marco Gerards
2004-10-06 10:18         ` Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-10-07  9:18           ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
2004-10-07 14:54             ` Stefan Reinauer

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