Re: Doubt Regarding Floating Point Arithmetic

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On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 08:09:31AM +0530, me storage wrote:
> Can you please explain me one scenario that lets suppose  take calculator
> application in lower level it should interact with kernel code So here who is
> take care of Floating point calculations?

The userspace program does the floating point calculations.  The kernel
would not interact with a calculator application in a way that would
require the kernel to do anything here, it merely schedules the
userspace tasks to run.

Hope this helps,

greg k-h

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