From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 12 19: 0:54 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB11A37B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:00:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-67-119-52-61.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.119.52.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28AC143FCB for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:00:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B47A067C8C; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:00:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 97E5CF96; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:00:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:00:51 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Parveen Patel Cc: Dan Nelson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: floating point in the kernel Message-ID: <20030213030051.GB36829@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030213001316.GD1980@dan.emsphone.com> <20030212194757.U25147-100000@bas.flux.utah.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030212194757.U25147-100000@bas.flux.utah.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:50:23PM -0700, Parveen Patel wrote: >=20 > Thanks for your response. > My only concern is a square root operation I have to do. Is there some > standard routine that will do it for long long or else I can pull out some > code from gnu/i386/fpemul to do my computations. You probably should try to restructure your code so you don't need to do this. Kris --GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+SwpjWry0BWjoQKURAo2jAKCTr9Acivnp8RIS4nB/2URVOJZc2QCfbt/p JxFuDuU1Kzw7uhd7ZzyQwL8= =Rqje -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message