Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:17:39 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: FP in kernelspace |
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> > Cannot work on x86-64, even disregarding fp exceptions, because > kernel_fpu_begin() doesn't save the sse state which is used by fp math. > > No?
No. You can - if you want - exclusively use x87 math on x64 (at least for userspace) and don't care about SSE. Otherwise, GCC having a -mfpmath=387 would be pretty useless.
No?
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