RE: Accessing signgam from the middle-end for builtin lgamma

2007-04-26 Thread Dave Korn
On 25 April 2007 18:55, Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote: > I'd like to work on using MPFR to handle builtin lgamma. In what sense is it a builtin if it requires a library to be installed and emits a call to a library function ??? I may not have understood what you're trying to do here, but how would it b

Re: Accessing signgam from the middle-end for builtin lgamma

2007-04-26 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Korn wrote: > On 25 April 2007 18:55, Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote: > > > I'd like to work on using MPFR to handle builtin lgamma. > > In what sense is it a builtin if it requires a library to be installed and > emits a call to a library function ??? I may not have understood what you're > tryin

RE: Accessing signgam from the middle-end for builtin lgamma

2007-04-26 Thread Dave Korn
On 26 April 2007 16:26, Brian Dessent wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > >> On 25 April 2007 18:55, Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote: >> >>> I'd like to work on using MPFR to handle builtin lgamma. >> >> In what sense is it a builtin if it requires a library to be installed >> and emits a call to a library func

RE: Accessing signgam from the middle-end for builtin lgamma

2007-04-26 Thread Kaveh R. GHAZI
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Dave Korn wrote: > On 26 April 2007 16:26, Brian Dessent wrote: > > > The builtin would run on the host at compile time, whereas the above > > would run on the target at runtime. I presume he's talking about using > > MPFR in the host compiler to simplify lgamma(constant), no

Re: Accessing signgam from the middle-end for builtin lgamma

2007-04-27 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Kaveh" == Kaveh R GHAZI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kaveh> I'm doing this at the tree level, so AIUI I have to be mindful of type, Kaveh> scope and conflicts. I also have to decide what to do in non-C. There's nothing to do here for Java -- Java code can't access lgamma. Not to be too ne

Re: Accessing signgam from the middle-end for builtin lgamma

2007-04-27 Thread Kaveh R. GHAZI
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Tom Tromey wrote: > Not to be too negative (I am curious about this), but does this sort of > optimization really carry its own weight? Is this a common thing in > numeric code or something like that? > Tom I don't know that optimizing lgamma by itself makes a big difference