On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 13:01 -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. I don't recall if Torbajorn's code allows > for emulation of all rounding modes or exception bits. > > But I suspect that Torbajorn's code compiles down smaller, which > is likely to be helpful to the folk that actually need it.
Not necessarily. Some of the systems I'm thinking of don't really have tight memory constraints. They just omit FP hardware for power-consumption and die-size reasons. AG > > The GLIBC bits claim to be LGPL'd, so that would indeed need a change to > > include them in libgcc. > > I wouldn't expect that to be a problem. > > > r~
