Re: Advice saught on math functions

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@ucw.cz)
Date: Sat Jul 13 2002 - 09:00:24 EST


Hi!

> > Are these functions which are supplied by the FPU? I've looked
> > through the fpu emulation headers and exp() is the only one I can find
>
> You can't use FPU operations in the x86 kernel.

Actually, you can do kernel_fpu_begin(); any FPU you want;
kernel_fpu_end(); but it is rarely good idea to do that.
                                                                        Pavel

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