Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 23 May 2001 16:38:43 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [timer] max timeout |
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On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 04:28:01PM +0200, sebastien person wrote: > Is it bad to do the following call ? > > mod_timer(&timer, jiffies+(0.1*HZ));
Yes very bad. gcc will generate a floating point add for that, corrupting the user process' floating point context.
-Andi
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