Re: Why all glibc2 programs are FPU programs

Ulrich Drepper (drepper@cygnus.com)
26 May 1998 12:00:09 -0700


"Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com> writes:

> One problem with the approach of adding an AT_LINUX_FPUCW
> symbol is that there can be only group of ELF executables that do
> not need to execute a floating point instruction at initialization.
> If you change the default FPU control word value, then all of the
> old programs become floating point programs.

You have to upgrade the libc as well.

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