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Re: Patch for Granlund's soft-fp lib
- From: "Hartmut Schirmer" <hartmut dot schirmer at arcor dot de>
- To: "Zack Weinberg" <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 22:25:24 +0200
- Subject: Re: Patch for Granlund's soft-fp lib
- References: <004401c33f18$044dfa10$282dfe91@Hartmut> <87fzlrh7ov.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com>
"Zack Weinberg" <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:
>
> Thank you for the patch, however, Torbjorn's soft-fp lib never got
> incorporated into GCC proper so there's not much we can do with it.
>
> If you would like to do the legwork to get it incorporated, we would
> appreciate that considerably. What you'd have to do is create a
> branch in CVS, install ieeelib.c and ieeecvt.c there, and then one at
> a time modify ports that use fp-bit.c to use the new library instead.
> Once all ports are validated to work with the new library, fp-bit.c
> can be removed, and then the branch can be merged. If you start now
> you should be done in good time for inclusion in GCC 3.5. It is
> unfortunately too late for 3.4.
+ Personally I would like to to the work.
- I do not have the time to do so.
- I don't know if it will be possible for me to get a
copyright assignment. This limits me to simple obvious
contributions.
- Last time this came up someone noticed unresolved
copyright/licence problems with Granlund's sources.
Summing these points gives a negative -- sorry.
Hartmut