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Re: Fwd: [PATCH 1/2] AArch64 glibc port
On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 2012-11-08 10:14, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > * The soft-fp change for correct underflow handling (GCC's soft-fp will
> > then need updating), revised as I suggested then will need posting to
> > libc-alpha.
>
> Don't forget that the linux kernel has another copy of soft-fp, used for
> kernel fp emulation in some architectures. Fixes ought to be propagated
> there as well.
This is about a patch to _FP_PACK_SEMIRAW (and supporting changes
elsewhere). The kernel's version of soft-fp diverged from glibc before I
added the "semiraw" optimizations in 2006 - anyone wishing to merge in
this fix will need to merge in several years' changes from the glibc code
first.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com