> With the main point of Rust being safety, there is no way I will ever accept "panic dynamically" (whether due to out-of-memory or due to anything else - I also reacted to the "floating point use causes dynamic panics") as a feature in the Rust model.
- Kernels generally don't want to use floating-point, because saving and restoring the floating-point registers is fairly expensive. - Without some pretty aggressive hacking, it's not possible to remove floating-point support from Rust. - What you /can/ do (and what these patches do) is replace all the floating-point builtins with kernel panics. - This obviously sucks versus actually removing the floating-point, but this is an RFC.