Re: [RFC] x86: Disable traditional FPU instructions too

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 01/27/2014 09:01 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think it'd hurt... although I think the above pretty much
>>> requires that the code contain actual floating-point types to ever be
>>> generated.  
>>
>> Unfortunately using float-typed constants (such as 1EexpL) are enough for 
>> this to happen.
> 
> checkpatch would seem to be the right place to check for this?
> 

Ideally gcc should have a -no-float option...

	-hpa


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