http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29845
--- Comment #10 from Jorn Wolfgang Rennecke <amylaar at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-11-07 22:40:39 UTC --- (In reply to comment #9) > Jörn, > I was curious whether the soft fpu code of yours is also available as C/C++, > or > did you write it in asm only? I guess it would be an interesting bunch of > code > quality tests for the compiler. I wrote it as asm only. There are a number of C implementations of software floating point available, but the compiler is not much good at combining high-level transformations with streamlined data representation, ABI modification, register allocation and scheduling to make the best use of an architecture.