Re: [newbie] Floating point

[Will Backman <whb@ceimaine.org>]

How does this address the goal of "correctness"?


Michael Shalayeff wrote:

>Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Jack J. Woehr:
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>>Theo de Raadt wrote:
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>>>There are many reasons to not permit FP in the kernel.
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>>>Numerous reasons.
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>>	Ooh! A brain teaser. Let's see:
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>>	- Indeterminate execution time of calculations
>>	- Extreme niche complexity of FP math not the domain of kernel hackers
>>	- Inability to handle FP exceptions meaningfully in kernel
>>	- Exponentially increased Murphyite chance for div-by-0 in kernel
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>>How's my score? Which ones have I missed? :-)
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>the main one: it's not going to change. deal w/ it.
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>cu