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>>>>> Jakub Jelinek writes: Jakub> On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 03:37:43PM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote: >> >> Since the soft-fp stuff is now in, how can I use it? Which ports do >> benefit from it? I'm interested in using the long double support for >> Mips. Is this possible? Jakub> It's an IEEE software emulation framework, so everywhere you need software Jakub> math emulation of the basic operations (+,-,*,/,sqrt,comparisons) you can Jakub> use it. Do you have any example for it? Is soft-fp anywhere used already in glibc? Jakub> If you want to support quad long doubles on mips, I'd first go into gcc and Jakub> hack support for that, because Jakub> [root@tucnak gcc]# grep LONG_DOUBLE_TYPE_SIZE config/mips/*.h Jakub> config/mips/mips.h:#define LONG_DOUBLE_TYPE_SIZE 64 Jakub> [root@tucnak gcc]# Ok, thanks. Jakub> I don't know what the MIPS ABI specifies about quad software emulation Jakub> functions and arguments, so you need to find that out and last hack up Jakub> soft-fp/sysdeps/mips Makefiles (and actual routines if the generic ones are Jakub> not what you want to use). Thanks, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger SuSE Labs aj@suse.de private aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de
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