From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: richard.coe@med.ge.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: finding floating point use in the kernel
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 11:29:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040512182951.GA4796@taniwha.stupidest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200405121802.NAA26824@neo.gso.med.ge.com>
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 01:02:45PM -0500, richard.coe@med.ge.com wrote:
> While trying to track down a problem with some floating point
> calculations, I wrote the following script. Perhaps someone can add
> it to the kernel Makefile to run when the Platform is I386.
As was just pointed out to me, this finds instructions which are never
executed (they are just part of alignment/padding) and decodes them
resulting in false positives.
Christoph pointed out -mm has -msoft-float which I think should be
sufficient to catch anything bad going on by accident.
--cw
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