Re: Why all glibc2 programs are FPU programs

David S. Miller (davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com)
Tue, 26 May 1998 01:30:17 -0700


Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 04:06:33 -0400
From: Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>

> This is not possible.

Why not? It is never helpful to make flat statements without
explaining your rationale.

And it's interesting because on most ports GLIBC inits the FPU csr to
the same value the Linux kernel does when a process first touches the
FPU, so it's essentially a nop and totally unneeded.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com

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