Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 01 May 2001 23:28:54 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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"Steven J. Hill" <sjhill@cotw.com> said: > I checked in the archives and did not see a discussion of this > anywhere. I have received some Linux kernel code from a project > that I have inherited and a couple of the drivers are including > math.h from the C library. This being the header file from > '/usr/include/math.h' in most cases. There are only two places > in the kernel that also include this header file. They are: > > drivers/atm/iphase.c > drivers/net/hamradio/soundmodem/gentbl.c > > As far as I can tell '/usr/include/math.h' is just full of > defines and the header files it includes are also a bunch > of defines with a few macro functions sprinkled in. Can someone > shed light on if this is bad or not and why it would be done > or necessary? Thanks.
Floating point in-kernel is a no-no-no. What you see is use in helper programs that are compiled as part of the kernel build. Check if that is your case too. -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Vin~a del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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