Torbjorn's ieeelib.c

[Aldy Hernandez]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> writes:

 > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 12:42:36PM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
 >> RTH is listed as the author of a lot of those bits, so perhaps he knows
 >> more?

 > The glibc bits handle ieee quad format, whereas I don't believe
 > that Torbajorn's does.  I don't recall if Torbajorn's code allows
 > for emulation of all rounding modes or exception bits.

 > But I suspect that Torbajorn's code compiles down smaller, which
 > is likely to be helpful to the folk that actually need it.

BTW, I think glibc's code does not support 16-bit architectures.

 >> The GLIBC bits claim to be LGPL'd, so that would indeed need a change to
 >> include them in libgcc.

 > I wouldn't expect that to be a problem.

There was a thread discussing all this, when I was interested in doing
the work.  I mailed rms directly, and he said it was ok to use the
glibc bits in gcc regardless of the LGPL/GPL disparity.

Aldy