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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 09:18:14 -0500
From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@quark.didntduck.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Dead code in i386 math-emu
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Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 03:40, Brian Gerst wrote:
> 
>>This removes unused non-reentrant code in the fpu emulator.
> 
> 
> Why remove it - it might actually be useful some day and its doing no
> harm ?
> 

Why keep it?  All it does is put the variables (28 bytes at most) in 
global space instead of on the stack.  There is no need to have it both 
ways.

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				Brian Gerst

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