2008/5/23 Roberto A. Foglietta <roberto.foglietta@xxxxxxxxx>: > 2008/5/23 Carlo Bertoldi <mcbain@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> Roberto A. Foglietta wrote, on the 23/05/2008 14.43: >>> >>> Hi to all, >>> >>> >> >> >> [...] >> >>> floating point used in kernel >>> >>> I am developing in PPC arch and I would know why I fall in this trap >>> and if I have be worried about it. >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >> >> This could help: >> http://www.issociate.de/board/post/427110/Floating_point_in_kernel.html >> > > Thanks for the link I just read before writing here but > unfortunately, as the code shown, no any arithmetic operation with > float point are involved in the modules. > The code which display that message was not seek() related but this static int check_permission(loff_t offset, int write) { /* if char str[2][10] is declared instead no any "floating point used in kernel" appears */ char *str[2] = {"read", "write"}; /* if str[0] is printked no any "floating point used in kernel" appears */ printk("%s\n", str[1]); return 0; } I have found the cause but I am not understand why. Cheers, -- /roberto -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
