Re: Floating point usage

[Vesa Jääskeläinen]

Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I tried to compile the current grub on Fedora 9 for PowerPC, but it
> failed due to floating point usage in ls.  Sorry, I don't have the exact
> message handy.
>
> Anyway, there are several references to "float" and "double" in the
> code, and I think it's wrong.  GRUB should be able to work on systems
> with no floating point support and on systems where the floating point
> device needs to be activated.  Even Linux kernel avoids using floating
> point.
>
> If everyone is fine, I'll try to remove all floating point stuff from
> the code.

Its only for printing units in human readable format. So its only small 
arithmetics to get it going nicely with integers. While you are there, 
can you modify it to use more proper units... MiB , KiB,...