Re: writing to a floating point register ?

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Sven Luther wrote:

while writing a fbdev driver, i need to write a value to a floating
point register. Do we have any macro doing this, or should i need to
calculate the sign, mantissa and exponent by hand ?

Just doing a unsigned int cast would round the value i think, and thus
not give the right result.

You cannot use floating point math in the kernel.

What exactly are you trying to achieve?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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