Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 May 2004 11:29:51 -0700 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: finding floating point use in the kernel |
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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.
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