Re: [rtl] Simple floating point question

[yodaiken@fsmlabs.com]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:18:14PM +0100, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> Hi Guilherme,
> 
> I disagree, even if in most cases this is not desirable, I think if
> someone wants to do this and they know what the implications are, it
> should not be forbidden.

With open source, nothing is forbidden. It's simply a question of what
is supported and what is good programming.   Some people like the VxWorks
model and if it works for them and they can produce reliable programs, so 
much the better. 

> After all, putting a scheduler into an interrupt handler would be
> frowned upon by many purist, but this is what is making RTL/RTAI work
> for us all right now.

A mysterious comment. RTLinux has always worked without the 
scheduler if it is not neeeded for the applications.  And all schedulers
for preemptive systems run from interrupt handlers, back since Alan Turing.
I don't see how you could do things otherwise, purist or not.