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Re: Please fork soft-fp from libc
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak at gmail dot com>
- Cc: GCC <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:32:16 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: Please fork soft-fp from libc
- References: <4671688C.8050601@gmail.com>
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Uros Bizjak wrote:
> There was no response from libc maintainers about changing the type of soft-fp
> compares into CMPtype. This type should be defined to mode(word) or at least
Take that matter with the glibc maintainers directly to RMS.
> we should be able to redefine it outside the soft-fp, in target dependent
> sfp-target.h. As this is major obstacle in further development (complex
> numbers) and even in the usability of software FP as part of gcclib (TFmode
> compares return wrong values), I propose that we fork soft-fp from libc.
Take that proposal directly to RMS. Forking shared files is not a matter
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