From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Doubt Regarding Floating Point Arithmetic
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 21:35:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140723043536.GC21993@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHmg6GNWLzKA-UMXFx5mJT6D+o23=pYTtNFPOdmDvdnT5XxC7w@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 08:45:54AM +0530, me storage wrote:
> Hi
> I am reading LDD .In that i didn't understand one point .In Chapter 2(Building
> and Running Modules) they mentioned that
> ?" Kernel code cannot do floating point arithmetic"
> .My doubt is which code is used for floating point arithmetic that means at low
> level?
I don't understand, what do you mean by this? You should not do any
floating point math instructions within kernel code. That's all that is
saying.
Hope you like the book,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-23 4:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-23 3:15 Doubt Regarding Floating Point Arithmetic me storage
2014-07-23 4:35 ` Greg KH [this message]
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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2014-07-24 2:39 me storage
2014-07-24 4:18 ` Greg KH
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