The floating-point status word in
a multithreaded environment
Applicable to variants of the software floating-point libraries
that require a status word (--fpmode=ieee_fixed or --fpmode=ieee_full),
the floating-point status word is safe to use in a multithreaded
environment, even with software floating-point. A status word for
each thread is stored in its own __user_perthread_libspace block.
Note
In a hardware floating-point environment, the floating-point
status word is stored in a Vector Floating-Point (VFP)
register. In this case, your thread-switching mechanism must keep
a separate copy of this register for each thread.
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