From: vm.rod25@gmail.com (Victor Rodriguez)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: floating points in kernel space
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 08:31:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=UcmPUycrgzjyLMpu9QdrWDLRiVuN37QSyhHZF@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin2fUDA6tBmgVL7aoYnR=WVWgOYep=GLD8o+A3M@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 6:43 AM, mohit verma <mohit89mlnc@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi all,
> i read somewhere that there is no floating point arithmatic supported in the
> kernel space . is it true??
> but the floating point registers and even floating point arithmatic units
> are all handled by the.........( kernel i think).
>
>
> thanks in advance for help...........
>
HI it is true , the floating point is not supported on printk , AFAIK
the only way to handle is to send it like HEX values and then some
other application like perl or python transform it to floating point
Hope it helps
Regards
Victor Rodriguez
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-04 14:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-04 12:43 floating points in kernel space mohit verma
2011-01-04 14:31 ` Victor Rodriguez [this message]
2011-01-04 15:44 ` Dave Hylands
2011-01-04 16:57 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-01-04 22:19 ` julie Sullivan
2011-01-04 22:32 ` Greg Freemyer
2011-01-04 23:26 ` julie Sullivan
2011-01-21 14:38 ` lei yang
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