Doubt Regarding Floating Point Arithmetic

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Wed Jul 23 00:35:36 EDT 2014


On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 08:45:54AM +0530, me storage wrote:
> Hi
> I am reading LDD .In that i didn't understand one point .In Chapter 2(Building
> and Running Modules) they mentioned that
>  " Kernel code cannot do floating point arithmetic"
> .My doubt is which code is used for floating point arithmetic that means at low
> level?

I don't understand, what do you mean by this?  You should not do any
floating point math instructions within kernel code.  That's all that is
saying.

Hope you like the book,

greg k-h



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