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Re: Don't optimize by hand (Was Re: Lack of fabsf on Solaris (patch included))

To: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at albatross dot co dot nz>
Subject: Re: Don't optimize by hand (Was Re: Lack of fabsf on Solaris (patch included))
From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
Date: 26 Jan 2001 00:39:37 -0700
Cc: Cedric Berger <cedric at wireless-networks dot com>, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>, martin dot kahlert at infineon dot com, java-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
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>>>>> "Bryce" == Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz> writes:

Bryce> Is there some reason why Math::abs(float) and friends can't
Bryce> just be implemented as "__builtin_fabsf()", etc, in libgcj?

Oops... in this particular situation it is very unlikely to make a
difference.  And we probably don't really implement strict fp
semantics anyway (I haven't checked, but does fp multiply or whatever
really call a function?).

Tom

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Don't optimize by hand (Was Re: Lack of fabsf on Solaris (patch included))
  - From: Bryce McKinlay
- Re: Don't optimize by hand (Was Re: Lack of fabsf on Solaris (patch included))
  - From: Andrew Haley

References:
- Lack of fabsf on Solaris (patch included)
  - From: Martin Kahlert
- Re: Lack of fabsf on Solaris (patch included)
  - From: Cedric Berger
- Re: Lack of fabsf on Solaris (patch included)
  - From: Martin Kahlert
- Re: Lack of fabsf on Solaris (patch included)
  - From: Cedric Berger
- Re: Lack of fabsf on Solaris (patch included)
  - From: Andrew Haley
- Don't optimize by hand (Was Re: Lack of fabsf on Solaris (patch included))
  - From: Cedric Berger
- Re: Don't optimize by hand (Was Re: Lack of fabsf on Solaris (patch included))
  - From: Bryce McKinlay

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