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Date:      Thu, 3 Dec 1998 16:57:46 +0100
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu>, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.0 and double operations in device drivers
Message-ID:  <19981203165746.J18661@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <199812031547.JAA05173@plains.NoDak.edu>; from Mark Tinguely on Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 09:47:46AM -0600
References:  <199812031547.JAA05173@plains.NoDak.edu>

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On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 09:47:46AM -0600, Mark Tinguely wrote:
> >  > My question is: "Is floating point math now taboo in the kernel?"
> >
> >  it has always been!
> 
> I asked for that one :). remove taboo and replace with "forbidden".

It always has been.

(Ie, it has never worked reliably, and this has been a known property
of the design).

Eivind.

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