>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Richard Henderson wrote: >> The glibc bits handle ieee quad format, whereas I don't believe >> that Torbajorn's does. I don't recall if Torbajorn's code allows >> for emulation of all rounding modes or exception bits. > I believe it does not. >> But I suspect that Torbajorn's code compiles down smaller, which >> is likely to be helpful to the folk that actually need it. > I think both size and speed are important, but, yes, size is an issue. > I would certainly expect that many embedded users would want to be able > to disable rounding-mode and/or exception support to save code size, > although there are probably also users that would make use of support > for these features. Torbajorn's code does not handle rounding/expection.
