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Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 08:46:53 -0500
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On May 13, 2005, at 8:14 AM, Mark Chambers wrote:

> >
>  >
>  > You're using floating arithmetic in the kernel.
>  >
>  > That's not supported.
>  >
>  > Regards
>  >
>  > Pantelis
>  >
>
> Just for my edification:=A0 Is floating point itself not supported=20
> (floating
>  point register
>  corruption or something like that) or just linking to user space=20
> libraries?

Use of floating point registers and instructions.  Its possible to use=20=

FP in rare cases inside the kernel buts its extremely discouraged.

- kumar