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From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Sandy Harris <pashley@storm.ca>
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Subject: Re: Advice saught on math functions
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On Fri Jul 12, 2002 at 11:42:19AM -0400, Sandy Harris wrote:
> Does dietlibc help?
> 

This is kernel space.  Using any math functions is forbidden
in kernel space, so using dietlibc, uClibc, or anything else
is not going to work.  Moving the math stuff to userspace will
help, at which point he can use any C library that suits him,

 -Erik

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