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Re: Please fork soft-fp from libc
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 08:07:32PM +0200, Uros Bizjak wrote:
> > It can hardly be considered a glibc bug when GCC changed this incompatibly
> > a year ago, up to GCC 4.1.x inclusive __eqtf2 etc. used SItype (i.e. int on
> > all architectures glibc cares about).
> >
> > That said, as none of the routines in question
> > ({eq,ge,le,unord}[sdxt]f2) are actually used by sparc32/sparc64/alpha that
> > use glibc soft-fp code,
Could anyone explain why this change was made? It seems like SItype
would be sufficient everywhere, and I can't see any obvious reason it
would be slower.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery