weird optimization in sin+cos, x86 backend
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
Thu Feb 9 18:09:00 GMT 2012
On Thu, 9 Feb 2012, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 02/09/2012 04:53 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > My view is that we should have a "GNU libm" project whose purpose is not
> > to install a library directly but to provide functions for use in other
> > projects (much like gnulib, but the functions could presume that they were
> > being built with recent GCC).
>
> But why, exactly? Simply because we could never get an improved
> libm into glibc with Ulrich Drepper and Richard Stallman as
> gatekeepers?
No, the point of the separate project would be to be used by both glibc
and GCC (and possibly other GNU projects such as GSL) - because
cooperation among the various projects wanting such functions is the right
way to do things.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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