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Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 16:38:43 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: sebastien person <sebastien.person@sycomore.fr>
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Subject: Re: [timer] max timeout
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On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 04:28:01PM +0200, sebastien person wrote:
> Is it bad to do the following call ?
> 
> 	mod_timer(&timer, jiffies+(0.1*HZ));

Yes very bad. gcc will generate a floating point add for that, corrupting
the user process' floating point context. 


-Andi