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From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Sandy Harris <pashley@storm.ca>
Cc: Kirk Reiser <kirk@braille.uwo.ca>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Advice saught on math functions
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 18:20:54 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020714002054.GB29007@codepoet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D2EF8DB.4DB091FF@storm.ca>

On Fri Jul 12, 2002 at 11:42:19AM -0400, Sandy Harris wrote:
> Does dietlibc help?
> 

This is kernel space.  Using any math functions is forbidden
in kernel space, so using dietlibc, uClibc, or anything else
is not going to work.  Moving the math stuff to userspace will
help, at which point he can use any C library that suits him,

 -Erik

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-14  0:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-12 14:08 Advice saught on math functions Kirk Reiser
2002-07-12 14:39 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-12 14:52   ` Kirk Reiser
2002-07-12 15:32     ` Alan Cox
2002-07-12 16:04       ` Kirk Reiser
2002-07-12 16:31         ` Alan Cox
2002-07-12 16:21           ` Dave Jones
2002-07-15  9:46           ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-07-16  5:26             ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-07-15 10:03         ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-07-15 14:10           ` Kirk Reiser
2002-07-15 16:38             ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-07-12 15:46     ` Nicolas Pitre
2002-07-12 16:30       ` Kirk Reiser
2002-07-12 17:03         ` Nicolas Pitre
2002-07-12 16:22   ` J.A. Magallon
2002-07-12 16:49     ` William Park
2002-07-13 14:00   ` Pavel Machek
2002-07-13 17:10     ` Alan Cox
2002-07-12 14:46 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-12 15:42 ` Sandy Harris
2002-07-12 16:46   ` Kirk Reiser
2002-07-14  0:20   ` Erik Andersen [this message]
2002-07-14 14:17     ` Sandy Harris
2002-07-14 16:49       ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-07-14 17:01       ` Thunder from the hill

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