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On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 04:59:37PM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> >>>>> Jakub Jelinek writes:
>
> Jakub> On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 03:37:43PM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> >>
> >> Since the soft-fp stuff is now in, how can I use it? Which ports do
> >> benefit from it? I'm interested in using the long double support for
> >> Mips. Is this possible?
>
> Jakub> It's an IEEE software emulation framework, so everywhere you need software
> Jakub> math emulation of the basic operations (+,-,*,/,sqrt,comparisons) you can
> Jakub> use it.
>
> Do you have any example for it? Is soft-fp anywhere used already in
> glibc?
It is currently used on sparc64-*-linux for the _Qp_* routines (IEEE quad
emulation), see soft-fp/sysdeps/sparc/sparc64/ and also in the Linux kernel (sparc, sparc64,
alpha math emulation).
Cheers,
Jakub
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Linux version 2.3.38 on a sparc64 machine (1343.49 BogoMips)
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