floating points in kernel space

2011-01-04 Thread mohit verma
hi all, i read somewhere that there is no floating point arithmatic supported in the kernel space . is it true?? but the floating point registers and even floating point arithmatic units are all handled by the.( kernel i think). thanks in advance for help... --

Re: floating points in kernel space

2011-01-04 Thread Victor Rodriguez
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 6:43 AM, mohit verma mohit89m...@gmail.com wrote: hi all, i read somewhere that there is no floating point arithmatic supported in the kernel space . is it true?? but the floating point registers and even floating point arithmatic units are all handled by the.(

Re: floating points in kernel space

2011-01-04 Thread Dave Hylands
Hi Mohit, On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:43 AM, mohit verma mohit89m...@gmail.com wrote: hi all, i read somewhere that there is no floating point arithmatic supported in the kernel space . is it true?? but the floating point registers and even floating point arithmatic units are all handled by

Re: floating points in kernel space

2011-01-04 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
Hi.. On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 22:44, Dave Hylands dhyla...@gmail.com wrote: That is correct. In some architectures, attempts to use floating point from the kernel will work. I've seen some x86 code that uses it. AFAIK, once x86 didn't supported due to floating point related registers are not

Re: floating points in kernel space

2011-01-04 Thread julie Sullivan
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 22:44, Dave Hylands dhyla...@gmail.com wrote: That is correct. In some architectures, attempts to use floating point from the kernel will work. I've seen some x86 code that uses it. AFAIK, once x86 didn't supported due to floating point related registers are not