Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

From: Ulrich Drepper (drepper@redhat.com)
Date: Fri Apr 20 2001 - 16:44:41 EST


"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:

> The kernel doesn't know if a process is going to use the FPU when
> a new process is created. Only the user's code, i.e., the 'C' runtime
> library knows.

Maybe you should try to understand the kernel code and the features of
the processor first. The kernel can detect when the FPU is used for
the first time.

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