The state of glibc libm

Andi Kleen andi@firstfloor.org
Thu Mar 15 14:18:00 GMT 2012


> SSE ABI entries for i?86 in glibc were rejected.  I proposed them like
> 4-5 years ago to make -mfpmath=sse not suck.

With the new libm hopefully this can be revisited.

But there's the ABI and there's the internal implementation.

My point was just that relying on x87 fully again does not really make
sense anymore in 2012.

-andi

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