On Mon, 1 Aug 2016, Richard Biener wrote:

> > Correct expansion of abs or copysign for IBM long double (i.e., for the 
> > case where signbit_rw for the format is -1) requires special logic for 
> > that format; inhibiting particular incorrect expansion code may cause an 
> > external function call to be used in place of an incorrect inline 
> > expansion, but that won't help if you care about avoiding such a function 
> > call to fabsl or copysignl.  The logic for IBM long double isn't that 
> > complicated - a few bitwise manipulations - but we don't have it at 
> > present (for that soft-float case).
> 
> So I read your comment as a general remark and not as an objection
> to the patch in question?

Yes.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jos...@codesourcery.com

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