Re: Unbalanced stack usage in arch/i386/math-emu/wm_sqrt.S

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Aug 13 2007 - 12:09:26 EST


Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Originally sent to the maintainer of the i386 math-emu code
> (billm@xxxxxxxxxxxx) but that mail was bounced[1]. Is anybody
> maintaining the math-emu code and do we even care about it anymore?

I can take a patch, but I would prefer if it was tested
e.g. by force disabling the FPU and then running a program
to trigger that exception. If there is no test it
might be safer to keep the bug around than to run
untested code.

-Andi
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