On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 01:01:23PM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 12:42:36PM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote: > > RTH is listed as the author of a lot of those bits, so perhaps he knows > > more? > > The glibc bits handle ieee quad format, whereas I don't believe > that Torbajorn's does.
Right. > I don't recall if Torbajorn's code allows > for emulation of all rounding modes or exception bits. No, it doesn't. I was halfheartedly hoping that it did. > But I suspect that Torbajorn's code compiles down smaller, which > is likely to be helpful to the folk that actually need it. Before we actually do replace fp-bit, if this is the primary differentiator between the two, I'd like to see numbers. I'd rather have rounding/exception support available if the performance and size cost is acceptable. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC
