Re: Advice saught on math functions

From: Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Date: Sun Jul 14 2002 - 11:49:39 EST


Sandy Harris writes:
> Erik Andersen wrote:

>> This is kernel space. Using any math functions is forbidden
>> in kernel space,
>
> Exactly what do you mean by "forbidden"?

You will corrupt the FPU registers of a user app and/or
cause an oops, assuming the kernel compiles at all.
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