From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 12 11:57:58 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EB8A37B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:57:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from wrath.cs.utah.edu (wrath.cs.utah.edu [155.99.198.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21A1443F85 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:57:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ppatel@cs.utah.edu) Received: from nfast.cs.utah.edu (nfast.cs.utah.edu [155.99.212.2]) by wrath.cs.utah.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h1CJvsD00261 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 12:57:54 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 12:57:54 -0700 (MST) From: Parveen Patel X-X-Sender: ppatel@bas.flux.utah.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: floating point in the kernel Message-ID: <20030212124123.M11977-100000@bas.flux.utah.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Can I use floating point operations inside the FreeBSD kernel version 4.7-stable? It used to be a policy not to use it for obvious performance probelms. Are there any known work arounds? Like some standard efficient techniques to convert floating point operations to fixed point operations without losing too much precision. Thanks, -Parveen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message