patch: docs for soft float routines

Richard Earnshaw rearnsha@arm.com
Wed Mar 12 10:30:00 GMT 2003


> On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:03:58AM -0800, Aldy Hernandez wrote:
> > >http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-03/msg00798.html
> > 
> > Ah, in that case, it's rounding towards zero because, in (fix:M N), M 
> > is a floating point mode.  I missed that subtlety.  So, the patch as I 
> > just posted, has the wording correct.
> 
> No, now we're mixing topics.  The thread above concerns RTL.
> The thread here concerns library routines.  It would be
> shockingly stupid to make two libcalls to perform the C
> float->int conversion instead of one.

Good point.  I agree entirely.

R.



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