Re: [rtl] Floating point in "restricted" code

[kissg]

> On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 11:29:57AM -0500, Shel Hoffman wrote:
> > Under what circumstance is it acceptable to use floating point (FPU) in:
> > 
> >     . a interrupt service routine?
> 
> nope.
> >     
> >     . a RT-FIFO handler that is called when a FIFO has data added to it?
> >       (e.g., a FIFO handler function specified rtf_create_handler())
> 
> no.



OK, I can see that no FP operations allowed in these contexts.
I.e   i=3e45*2e-3; is forbidden. But what about FPU related API
functions?
        pthread_setfp_np
        rt_task_use_fp
        rtl_fpinit
        
(Just to make table at
http://gatling.aszi.sztaki.hu/~kissg/doc_nmt/context.html more complete.)

Regards

Gabor
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