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* [9fans] sys: floating point in note handler
@ 2011-09-20 10:30 Steve Simon
  2011-09-20 11:33 ` cinap_lenrek
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From: Steve Simon @ 2011-09-20 10:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

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



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