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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:30:32 +0100
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Subject: [9fans] sys: floating point in note handler
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working on linuxemu I find perl seems to use floating point
in a signal handler - I have not worked out where or why as
getting debug symbols for perl is harder than I expected.

I understand note handlers are not alowed to use floating point,
but why is this - is it just for simplicity - "it was never needed so
we never wrote the code to support it", or is there a fundamental reason
why this is a no-no?

Thanks

-Steve