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Re: Ping Re: Make strtod respect the rounding mode (bug 14518)
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 09/12/2012 08:31 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > The idea is to have the same set of *names* present in the code
> > everywhere, so that code using these values doesn't need to be conditioned
> > on which are available on a particular architecture. This includes
> > setting the mode to round_tonearest in cases where there is no rounding
> > mode support for an architecture and so no FE_* macros are defined at all.
>
> My suggestion then is that those few targets that have no rounding mode
> support be required to define the FE_* macros in get-rounding-mode.h.
> Given that this header is totally private to the library, they can make
> up any values they choose to let the generic parts compile.
Do you then suggest that sysdeps/generic/get-rounding-mode.h should
translate _FPU_RC_* into FE_* (which might or might not be a no-op
translation)? It could define FE_* in the case that none are defined; it
would be cases defining a nonempty proper subset (such as SH and Tile and
am33) that would need their own get-rounding-mode.h where they didn't
previously. And would you also eliminate the rounding_mode_t type (since
FE_* are just ints)?
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com