>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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. BTW, I think glibc's code does not support 16-bit architectures. >> 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. There was a thread discussing all this, when I was interested in doing the work. I mailed rms directly, and he said it was ok to use the glibc bits in gcc regardless of the LGPL/GPL disparity. Aldy
