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Re: patch: docs for soft float routines
- From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>, Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com, Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Joseph Myers <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:30:05 +0000
- Subject: Re: patch: docs for soft float routines
- Organization: ARM Ltd.
- Reply-to: Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:03:58AM -0800, Aldy Hernandez wrote:
> > >http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-03/msg00798.html
> >
> > Ah, in that case, it's rounding towards zero because, in (fix:M N), M
> > is a floating point mode. I missed that subtlety. So, the patch as I
> > just posted, has the wording correct.
>
> No, now we're mixing topics. The thread above concerns RTL.
> The thread here concerns library routines. It would be
> shockingly stupid to make two libcalls to perform the C
> float->int conversion instead of one.
Good point. I agree entirely.
R.