9 Jul
2024
9 Jul
'24
8:40 a.m.
On Mon, 8 Jul 2024, Adam Thornton wrote:
Indeed, S/390 Linux ran just fine on machines without
IEEE floating
point. Which meant that for years I had to jam `use integer` at the top
of any Perl I ran, because otherwise any Perl arithmetic at all would go
through the software float routines, which was very painful on little
machines, such as a P/390.
When it comes down to it, why would a kernel need floating point? Or are
you talking about the distribution instead of the OS?
-- Dave