This is the mail archive of the
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: Torbjorn's ieeelib.c
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gcc mailing list <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:20:18 -0800
- Subject: Re: Torbjorn's ieeelib.c
- References: <438BB76E.8070905@codesourcery.com>
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 06:05:34PM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> That message contains an IEEE floating-point emulation library, like
> fp-bit.c. Howeve, the performance is considerably better; Joseph
> measured against fp-bit.c with a modern compiler, and ieeelib.c is about
> 10-15% better than the current code on EEMBC on a PowerPC 440.
Unsurprising, really. fp-bit.c is horrible.
> So, we're considering doing what it takes to get ieeelib.c into GCC, or,
> perhaps, borrowing some of its ideas for fp-bit.c.
I'd been hoping that someone would move libgcc to toplevel, and
perhaps rearrange fp emulation after that.
r~