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Re: Target FUNCTION_{PRO,EPI}LOGUE question
- To: jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk
- Subject: Re: Target FUNCTION_{PRO,EPI}LOGUE question
- From: Laurent Guerby <guerby at acm dot org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 22:31:41 +0200
- CC: neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk, amylaar at redhat dot com, kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106282016400.22638-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk>
- Reply-to: guerby at acm dot org
"Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>:
> [...] While GMP has more than is needed, it should cover languages
> that need general multiple precision, such as GNU Ada (though I
> don't know if the multiple precision implementation in GNU Ada is
> part of the runtime library; if so, this wouldn't work, since GMP is
> overkill for the runtime library, though parts of it are actually
> used internally by GNU libc), and has the great advantage that it is
> already written, optimised and debugged. G95 is already using GMP.
Multiple precision for GNU Ada is handled in the front-end (source
uintp.ad[sb]) and not exported in the runtime library (there are
multiple Ada GMP libraries floating around anyway).
--
Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org>