Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Sep 1998 22:44:06 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: Interesting scheduling times |
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Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 21:21:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
As to the AT_FPUCW patch, I don't see the point in saving a constant value in the ELF headers. Linux initializes the FPU for each process at "exevce()" time, and glibc might as well depend on that instead of trying to do so itself.
Ulrich refused to accept that argument, saying "What if Linus changes that someday?"
Of course, I think his argument is total crap because such initial state is just like syscalls and will have their interfaces preserved just like syscalls do. But since Ulrich was reluctant, Jakub implemented the AT_FPUCW solution which he did accept.
Later, David S. Miller davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com
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