Preprocessor arithmetic

[Zack Weinberg]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 03:49:40AM -0500, Michael Meissner wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 12:22:54AM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > 
> > Hm, g95 presently uses libgmp for integer and floating point
> > arithmetic simulation.  It might not be a bad idea to scrap what we
> > have and use libgmp everywhere - particularly the floating point
> > emulator.
> 
> It depends which floating point emulator you are talking about.  The one in
> real.c, certainly.  The one in config/fp-bit.c, I would say not at this time,
> since AFAIK, gmp doesn't have the libgcc exception to allow users to link it
> in.  Also, we would have to fold gmp into libgcc.a.

I was talking about real.c.

I dimly remember someone offering us a complete replacement for
fp-bit.c, which got ignored by the mailing list.  I may have
hallucinated this - casual search of the archive doesn't show it.  If
it happened, it would've been in early 1999.

zw