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- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: IMPORTANT [BUG in 0.99] Re: [ANNOUNCE]: linux version 0.99
- Keywords: kernel linux 0.99
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.213728.1769@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 21:37:28 GMT
- References: <1992Dec19.193230.282@grendel.demon.co.uk> <1992Dec19.222324.22106@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <20281@ksr.com>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
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- zdenek@ksr.com (Zdenek Radouch) writes:
- >Sounds more like a slight design problem, or perhaps a "feature".
-
- I will leave it to Linus to defend or excuse this.
-
- >This reminded me that I was questioning why the linux kernel uses floating
- >point code (I seem to remember a message posted, implying that it is used).
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- It doesn't. Or at least, there are no occurences of the keywords
- float or double outside of the math emulator. Perhaps you just
- remember somebody talking about the emulator? Putting _that_ into the
- kernel is a Very Good Thing, since it relieves the user programs from
- having to deal with the problem of using floating point math without
- an FPU.
-
- --
- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi (finger wirzeniu@klaava.helsinki.fi)
- MS-DOS, you can't live with it, you can live without it.
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