Re: Intel floating-point initialization

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
19 May 1998 16:44:10 GMT

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In article <19980519101452.11458@pauillac.inria.fr>,
Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr> wrote:
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>So, it is not correct to reinitialize the FPU in the new process.
>At least the FPU control word should be copied from the parent process.

Good point, patch applied.

Linus

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