Re: Advice saught on math functions

From: J.A. Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Date: Fri Jul 12 2002 - 11:22:29 EST

On 2002.07.12 Alan Cox wrote:
>> Are these functions which are supplied by the FPU? I've looked
>> through the fpu emulation headers and exp() is the only one I can find
>
>You can't use FPU operations in the x86 kernel.
>

Are you to worried about precission ? Can't you just do your sin() etc.
in fixed point ? (and move all your fpdata to fixed point, of course)

Or perhaps you could use some kind of DCT ? 

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