Peter Naulls writes:
> Sorry, the code was a snippet from a larger test program for various
> things and did actually include that. The FPE in question:
>
> bug:~# grep Floating /var/log/syslog
> Feb 17 15:06:16 bug kernel: Fast Floating Point Emulator V0.0 (c) Peter Teichmann.
Ah, maybe it'd help if the Configure.help part of the patch hadn't rejected...
+CONFIG_FASTFPE
+ Say Y here to include the FAST floating point emulator in the kernel.
+ This is an experimental much faster emulator which has only 32 bit
+ precision for the mantissa. It does not support any exceptions. This
+ makes it very simple, it is approximately 4-8 times faster than NWFPE.
+
+ It should be sufficient for most programs. It is definitely not
+ suitable if you do scientific calculations that need double precision
+ for iteration formulas that sum up lots of very small numbers. If you
+ do not feel you need a faster FP emulation you should better choose
+ NWFPE.
+ It is also possible to say M to build the emulator as a module
+ (fastfpe.o). But keep in mind that you should only load the FP emulator
+ early in the bootup. You should never change from NWFPE to FASTFPE or
+ vice versa in an active system!
+
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