On 18-Aug-07, at 7:16 PM, Ashutosh Adkar wrote:
Hi,
Can anybody please tell me the reason as to why
floating point
arithmetic is not very convinient in kernel code as against user code?
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Integer calculations are much more faster than floating point
calculations.
Generally, integer calculations are necessary and sufficient for the
things
done in kernel code. But if you really required floating point, you
can always
do that.
shantanoo
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