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Re: [RFC] preliminary patch to move decimal float runtime to new libs
- From: Janis Johnson <janis187 at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: andreas dot krebbel at de dot ibm dot com, hjl dot tools at gmail dot com, bje at au1 dot ibm dot com
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:12:53 -0700
- Subject: Re: [RFC] preliminary patch to move decimal float runtime to new libs
- References: <1218771843.6001.13.camel@janis-laptop>
- Reply-to: janis187 at us dot ibm dot com
On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 20:44 -0700, Janis Johnson wrote:
> I've made progress on moving decimal float runtime support from libgcc.a
> to libgcc_dfp.a and building a new shared library, libgcc_dfp.so.1.
> The patch works sometimes but still has problems and so is not yet ready
> for a full review, but I'd appreciate comments on the general approach.
> I'll be out of touch until Tuesday.
I'm dropping this patch after realizing that it's not necessary after
all, at least for use with the libdfp that's being developed within
the EGLIBC project. Applications that need full support for decimal
float will link against libdfp and get different versions of the
runtime support that are provided there, without needing to actually
override versions in a shared library provided by GCC.
Janis