> Will it be safe to do handwritten assembly floating point arth in kernel?
> (i am using i386.)
not normally, you will destroy userspace's floating point context unless you
are really really careful.
Just Say No(tm)
Ok, i see. Floating point context is not backed up on every syscall. But only during context switch.
I think we can save the floating point context before using Floating point arth and restore it after finished using FP.
thanks
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