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Re: rfc: replacing fp-bit with glibc's soft-fp implementation
- From: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>
- To: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>, GCC Mailinglist <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>, Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:24:49 -0400
- Subject: Re: rfc: replacing fp-bit with glibc's soft-fp implementation
On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 03:07 PM, David Edelsohn wrote:
Aldy Hernandez writes:
Aldy> Rms is still pondering over the licenses, so I'm going to do as
Earnshaw
Aldy> suggested, and wait for the verdict before discussing technical
details.
Aldy> But if you post a link to tege's replacement, I'll take a look
at it.
Jim posted a link earlier in this thread:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/1999-07n/msg00553.html
I would recommend Tege's version as well.
RMS just mailed me saying he approved of the licensing discrepancy:
that we could use glibc's soft float emulation in libgcc.
I guess we can start the technical discussions again.
Some folks have suggested using Tege's version. Jim mentioned it was
probably comparable for speed and reliability, yet being smaller.
However, Tege's version doesn't handle exceptions which was one of my
main reasons for using glibc's code.
Any further input? If folks are still interested in Tege's version
perhaps I should start hacking up some sample programs with statistics
so we can compare size, speed-- both with and without exceptions.
Aldy