From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Doubt Regarding Floating Point Arithmetic
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 21:18:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140724041839.GA8783@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHmg6GN8GOB_x4qDXp0ObBV57DznFu1y2yp7L8w=-MPovkA_5w@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 08:09:31AM +0530, me storage wrote:
> Can you please explain me one scenario that lets suppose? take calculator
> application in lower level it should interact with kernel code So here who is
> take care of Floating point calculations?
The userspace program does the floating point calculations. The kernel
would not interact with a calculator application in a way that would
require the kernel to do anything here, it merely schedules the
userspace tasks to run.
Hope this helps,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-24 4:18 UTC|newest]
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2014-07-24 2:39 Doubt Regarding Floating Point Arithmetic me storage
2014-07-24 4:18 ` Greg KH [this message]
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2014-07-23 3:15 me storage
2014-07-23 4:35 ` Greg KH
2014-07-29 14:19 ` Peter Teoh
2014-07-29 16:31 ` Prasad Ram
2014-07-29 23:31 ` Peter Teoh
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