Re: [PATCH] Dead code in i386 math-emu

From: Brian Gerst (bgerst@didntduck.org)
Date: Sun Nov 03 2002 - 09:18:14 EST


Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 03:40, Brian Gerst wrote:
>
>>This removes unused non-reentrant code in the fpu emulator.
>
>
> Why remove it - it might actually be useful some day and its doing no
> harm ?
>

Why keep it? All it does is put the variables (28 bytes at most) in
global space instead of on the stack. There is no need to have it both
ways.

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				Brian Gerst

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