In the last episode (Feb 12), Parveen Patel said: > 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.
You're not supposed to. I think this was the last time it was brought up: http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=746alr%24d44%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw > 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. Multiply your numbers by 10^9, store everything in long longs, and write your own printf_fake_fp function that shifts the decimal point? -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
