Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 14:41:20 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: floating point usage within the kernel - howto ? Message-ID: <199806101241.OAA19820@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199806101239.OAA19796@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Jun 10, 98 02:38:44 pm
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forgot to say, i don't expect this to be something portable across architectures :) luigi > a local user has a need to do some Floating Point computations within > the kernel. I think this is not possible without explicitly > saving&restoring the FP register around the task, is this correct ? > And if this is true, is there any trick/asm routine to call to do the > saving & restoring of the registers ? > > thanks > luigi > -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- > Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione > email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa > tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) > fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ > _____________________________|______________________________________ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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