Re: rfc: replacing fp-bit with glibc's soft-fp implementation

["Hartmut Schirmer" <hartmut dot schirmer at arcor dot de>]

Jim Wilson wrote:
> Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> > Consider tege's fp-bit replacement posted some years(! 1999?)
>
> July 15, 1999.  I saved a copy of it.
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/1999-07n/msg00553.html
>
> It is smaller and faster and less buggy than fp-bit.  I haven't looked
> at the glibc FP code, but I suspect it is bigger than Torbjorn's code,
> since Torbjorn's code doesn't try to handle exceptions. For speed and
> reliability, they are probably comparable.

I gave it a try on SH-1. Worked just out of the
box and is about 3 times faster than the fp-bit version :-)

Hartmut