Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 May 2004 12:26:29 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mxcsr patch for i386 & x86-64 |
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On Tue, 4 May 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Right now you export a function that does just a simple mask operation, > and quite frankly, that just seems to make it less clear what the code is > doing. So who not get rid of that "set_fpu_mxcsr()" function, and just > replace all the "0xffbf" uses with "mxcsr_feature_mask"?
I also note that the x86-64 version of has "mxcsr" as "unsigned short" in set_fpu_mxcsr(). I'd have expected these changes to make it possible to have feature bits in the high 16 bits too, no?
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