Torbjorn's ieeelib.c
Aldy Hernandez
aldyh@redhat.com
Thu Dec 1 14:08:00 GMT 2005
>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
> Richard Henderson wrote:
>> 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.
> I believe it does not.
>> But I suspect that Torbajorn's code compiles down smaller, which
>> is likely to be helpful to the folk that actually need it.
> I think both size and speed are important, but, yes, size is an issue.
> I would certainly expect that many embedded users would want to be able
> to disable rounding-mode and/or exception support to save code size,
> although there are probably also users that would make use of support
> for these features.
Torbajorn's code does not handle rounding/expection.
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