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From: arjan@fenrus.demon.nl
To: engler@csl.Stanford.EDU (Dawson Engler)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [CHECKER] new floating point bugs in 2.4.5-ac4
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 21:48:01 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m155Csr-000OkJC@amadeus.home.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200105302033.NAA07866@csl.Stanford.EDU>

In article <200105302033.NAA07866@csl.Stanford.EDU> you wrote:
> Here are two new uses of floating point that popped up in the 2.4.5-ac4
> kernel.  While the expressions that use FP are trivial, at least my
> version of gcc does not calculate them at compile time.

> [BUG] DMFE_TX_KICK is (HZ * 0.5) which gcc does as floating point.  Fix is
>        trivial: just divide by 2 instead.

Fixed in 2.4.5-ac5 already

      reply	other threads:[~2001-05-30 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-30 20:33 [CHECKER] new floating point bugs in 2.4.5-ac4 Dawson Engler
2001-05-30 20:48 ` arjan [this message]

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