Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269764AbUINUlv (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:41:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269656AbUINUkT (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:40:19 -0400 Received: from mail2.iserv.net ([204.177.184.152]:31969 "EHLO mail2.iserv.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269668AbUINUkB (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:40:01 -0400 Message-ID: <41475716.2020102@didntduck.org> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:39:50 -0400 From: Brian Gerst User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Denis Zaitsev CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.8.1/x86] The kernel is _always_ compiled with -msoft-float References: <20040915021418.A1621@natasha.ward.six> In-Reply-To: <20040915021418.A1621@natasha.ward.six> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 652 Lines: 19 Denis Zaitsev wrote: > Why this kernel is always compiled with the FP emulation for x86? > This is the line from the beginning of arch/i386/Makefile: > > CFLAGS += -pipe -msoft-float > > And it's hardcoded, it does not depend on CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION. So, > is this just a typo or not? To trap use of floating point in the kernel (not allowed). FPU emulation is only for userspace. -- Brian Gerst - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/