Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2 | From | Ulrich Drepper <> | Date | 20 Apr 2001 14:44:41 -0700 |
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"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
> The kernel doesn't know if a process is going to use the FPU when > a new process is created. Only the user's code, i.e., the 'C' runtime > library knows.
Maybe you should try to understand the kernel code and the features of the processor first. The kernel can detect when the FPU is used for the first time.
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