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pwdisswordfishytoday at 3:38 PM2 repliesview on HN

Does it manage to support floats? I am not sure if those can be safely used in the UEFI environment. (I recall GRUB’s build of Lua being integer-only, and Linux avoiding the use of floating-point arithmetic in kernel mode, but I don’t remember the reason.)


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flopsamjetsamtoday at 6:38 PM

Floating point was not supported in the Linux kernel to avoid having to save/restore FP registers.

monaxtoday at 3:39 PM

Yeah floats works