Please fork soft-fp from libc

[Joseph S. Myers]

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 
for the gcc list.

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Joseph S. Myers
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