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Re: Minimum floating-point requirements
- From: Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal dot cx>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>, Steve Munroe <sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com>, Adhemerval Zanella <azanella at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:34:36 -0500
- Subject: Re: Minimum floating-point requirements
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On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 05:53:40PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Feb 2014, David Edelsohn wrote:
>
> > Every ABI has peculiarities and historical baggage. One of the
> > strengths of the GNU Toolchain has been its acceptance of and
> > accommodation of many different ISAs, ABIs and OSes. That is one of
>
> Another strength has been its acceptance and accommodation of many
> different use cases, including ones not conceived of by the ISA, ABI or OS
> designers, or of interest to people other than the original developers.
Indeed, this is my perspective.
Rich