Re: Why all glibc2 programs are FPU programs

Ulrich Drepper (drepper@cygnus.com)
26 May 1998 09:25:45 -0700


"David S. Miller" <davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com> writes:

> It hasn't done so for 4 or 5 years, and it won't any time soon.

AFAIK there were some changes. Some time on Intel the 53 bit mantissa
was used.

But even ngiving the chance that it could change is enough. Why not
making the right thing in the kernel where all the information is
available and instead relying on synchronizing with user-level code?

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