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Re: Include SSE state in i386 fenv_t (bug 16064)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 15:49:47 +0000
- Subject: Re: Include SSE state in i386 fenv_t (bug 16064)
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On Fri, 9 May 2014, H.J. Lu wrote:
> There are 4 unused short int fields in fenv_t. Can we use 2 of them
> for mxcsr instead of re-using __eip?
You could, but I don't think it's worth the extra complexity. __eip is
already reused for this purpose in the fenv_private code.
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Joseph S. Myers
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