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Re: Preprocessor arithmetic
- To: zackw at Stanford dot EDU (Zack Weinberg)
- Subject: Re: Preprocessor arithmetic
- From: Joern Rennecke <amylaar at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:34:56 +0000 (GMT)
- Cc: neilb at earthling dot net (Neil Booth), rth at redhat dot com (Richard Henderson), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> Hm, g95 presently uses libgmp for integer and floating point
> arithmetic simulation. It might not be a bad idea to scrap what we
> have and use libgmp everywhere - particularly the floating point
> emulator.
I think that doing tree and rtl arithmetic (e.g. for fold-const.c, (g)cse.c
and combine.c) with gmp would slow the compiler down.