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Re: Minimum floating-point requirements
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal dot cx>, 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 17:53:40 +0000
- Subject: Re: Minimum floating-point requirements
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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.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com