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Re: Torbjorn's ieeelib.c
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Anthony Green <green at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc mailing list <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:42:36 -0800
- Subject: Re: Torbjorn's ieeelib.c
- References: <438BB76E.8070905@codesourcery.com> <1133296590.3187.9.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Anthony Green wrote:
> I did some benchmarking a year or two ago with Torbjorn's library and
> found good results as well. However, there was pushback on merging this
> in from the GCC hackers I spoke with because they saw glibc's FP
> emulation library as an even better solution, and implied there was some
> effort underway to move glibc's code into libgcc (perhaps there were
> licensing issues to resolve - I forget the details).
RTH is listed as the author of a lot of those bits, so perhaps he knows
more?
The GLIBC bits claim to be LGPL'd, so that would indeed need a change to
include them in libgcc.
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