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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