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Re: implement __builtin_copysign

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 03:21:46PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> As of the functions in libgcc, we have been talking about that on
> libstdc++-v3 for a long time.  I think that they should be placed in
> their own name space (e.g. prefixed with say __gcc_).  The reason is
> that otherwise it makes life really difficult for other language or
> library implementations that have to avoid or turn around names from C
> name namespace.

Huh?  All of libgcc's names are in some sort of private namespace.
In this case I was going to use __{mul,div}[sdxt]c3, similar to the
way we name all of the other arithmetic routines in libgcc already.


r~
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