On 14 Oct 2016, at 04:06, Ed Maste <ema...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Hi Bruce, thank you for the detailed response. > > On 14 October 2016 at 01:53, Bruce Evans <b...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: >>> compiler-rt's complex division support routines contain calls to >>> compiler builtins such as `__builtin_scalbnl`. Unfortunately Clang >>> turns these back into a call to `scalbnl`. >> >> gcc-4.2 has the same bug. > > Oh, interesting. Do you know off hand if it's resolved in later GCC?
Not for x86, in any case (I think I talked about this with you on IRC before). For example, using the latest gcc 7.0.0 20160911 on this program: float f1(float x, int n) { return __builtin_scalbnf(x, n); } double f2(double x, int n) { return __builtin_scalbn(x, n); } long double f3(long double x, long n) { return __builtin_scalbnl(x, n); } gives this assembly: .p2align 4,,15 .globl f1 .type f1, @function f1: .LFB0: .cfi_startproc jmp scalbnf .cfi_endproc .LFE0: .size f1, .-f1 .p2align 4,,15 .globl f2 .type f2, @function f2: .LFB1: .cfi_startproc jmp scalbn .cfi_endproc .LFE1: .size f2, .-f2 .p2align 4,,15 .globl f3 .type f3, @function f3: .LFB2: .cfi_startproc jmp scalbnl .cfi_endproc .LFE2: .size f3, .-f3 E.g., it looks like the __builtin_scalbn functions were always a red herring. :-) > It seems particularly unfortunate for the compiler to report (by > whatever mechanism) that a builtin exists, and then just turn that > builtin into a library call. Yes, at best this is misleading. -Dimitry
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