On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 06:22:29PM +0200, J.A. Magallon wrote:
>
> On 2002.07.12 Alan Cox wrote:
> >> Are these functions which are supplied by the FPU? I've looked
> >> through the fpu emulation headers and exp() is the only one I can find
> >
> >You can't use FPU operations in the x86 kernel.
>
> Are you to worried about precission ? Can't you just do your sin() etc.
> in fixed point ? (and move all your fpdata to fixed point, of course)
Or, you can use polynomial approximations.
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