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From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/fxp if_fxp.c
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:33:58PM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote:
>>>   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...

does it mean that integer multiply in the kernel is bad on the ia64 :)

	cheers
	luigi

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