fenv support vs. SMP systems

[Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>]

Hello,

the new fenv support alters usually some floating-point status and 
control register. This register is usually specific to the processor 
executing the code. In an SMP system, the current approach can lead to 
an inconsistent system if the register is not included in the thread 
context (for example in RTEMS these registers are considered to be 
system wide and are only initialized during the system startup). What do 
I mean with inconsistent system? For example, you set the rounding mode 
on processor A to from X (= default) to Y, then the you migrate to 
processor B and suddenly use the default rounding mode X. Another 
example is to do a division by zero on processor A and then migrate to 
processor B and check the exception flags.

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