From: "Vesa Jääskeläinen" <chaac@nic.fi>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Floating point usage
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:12:17 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <484848A1.4010902@nic.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1212598032.15804.9.camel@dv>
Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I tried to compile the current grub on Fedora 9 for PowerPC, but it
> failed due to floating point usage in ls. Sorry, I don't have the exact
> message handy.
>
> Anyway, there are several references to "float" and "double" in the
> code, and I think it's wrong. GRUB should be able to work on systems
> with no floating point support and on systems where the floating point
> device needs to be activated. Even Linux kernel avoids using floating
> point.
>
> If everyone is fine, I'll try to remove all floating point stuff from
> the code.
Its only for printing units in human readable format. So its only small
arithmetics to get it going nicely with integers. While you are there,
can you modify it to use more proper units... MiB , KiB,...
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-05 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-04 16:47 Floating point usage Pavel Roskin
2008-06-05 15:12 ` Jan Kleinsorge
2008-06-05 15:23 ` Stefan Reinauer
2008-06-05 17:12 ` Colin D Bennett
2008-06-05 20:01 ` Vincent Pelletier
2008-06-05 20:53 ` Robert Millan
2008-06-05 21:22 ` Stefan Reinauer
2008-06-05 20:12 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen [this message]
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