Re: [newbie] Floating point

[Artur Grabowski <art@blahonga.org>]

"Jack J. Woehr" <jwoehr@attglobal.net> writes:

> Theo de Raadt wrote:
> 
> > There are many reasons to not permit FP in the kernel.
> > 
> > Numerous reasons.
> 
> 	Ooh! A brain teaser. Let's see:
> 
> 	- 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
> 
> How's my score? Which ones have I missed? :-)

The most important ones.

//art