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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 16:00:24 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: Advice saught on math functions
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Hi!

> > Are these functions which are supplied by the FPU?  I've looked
> > through the fpu emulation headers and exp() is the only one I can find
> 
> You can't use FPU operations in the x86 kernel.

Actually, you can do kernel_fpu_begin(); any FPU you want;
kernel_fpu_end(); but it is rarely good idea to do that.
									Pavel
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