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Date:      Thu, 25 Oct 2001 22:33:58 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/fxp if_fxp.c
Message-ID:  <20011025223331.W549-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011025044829.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, John Baldwin wrote:

>
> On 25-Oct-01 Jonathan Lemon wrote:
> > jlemon      2001/10/25 12:36:44 PDT
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/dev/fxp          if_fxp.c
> >   Log:
> >   Aargh. I really shouldn't do late night commits.  Remove a floating point
> >   multiply, and replace it with a close equivalent.  1.488 =~ 1.5
>
> Heh.  Floating point in the kernel is bad.. mmmkay?
>
> :)

Its perfectly fine on ia64 though - integer multiplies are done with float
registers...

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