Re: Proposed floating point changes (Re: Using float emulator on a system with FPU?)

[Douglas Thomas Crosher]

> +  * The macro to choose one of these values does these steps: 1) Throw
> +  * away status word bits that cannot be masked. 2) Throw away the bits
> +  * currently masked in the control word, assuming the user isn't
> +  * interested in them anymore. 3) Reinsert status word bit 7 (stack

Throwing away the status bits is rather restricting.  This restriction
could be avoided by passing back the status word within the third
argument. A library function could be provided to implement your error
code mapping while not limiting the kernel interface.

Regards
Douglas Crosher


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