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From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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Subject: Re: Advice saught on math functions
To: pashley@storm.ca (Sandy Harris)
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 12:49:39 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <3D3187E6.426BB595@storm.ca> from "Sandy Harris" at Jul 14, 2002 10:17:10 AM
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Sandy Harris writes:
> Erik Andersen wrote:

>> This is kernel space.  Using any math functions is forbidden
>> in kernel space,
>
> Exactly what do you mean by "forbidden"?

You will corrupt the FPU registers of a user app and/or
cause an oops, assuming the kernel compiles at all.
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