Floating point in kernel

From: B. James Phillippe (bryan@terran.org)
Date: Wed May 03 2000 - 11:45:51 EST

Hello,

I know this is not legal. However, I'm reviewing some kernel module code
which basically does:

        unsigned long foo = some_other_ulong * 1.234;

This code has apparently been working for some time. According to C rules
of type promotion, "some_other_ulong" should be promoted to a double to
store the result of the expression, before discarding the fraction and
assigning to foo.

My question is, what are the likely problems to expect from this when
running in kernel-space (on x86 w/FPU)?

thanks,
-bp 

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