Alternate FP lib for GCC?

[Doug Evans <dje at transmeta dot com>]

William Gatliff writes:
 > It's me again...
 > 
 > Would someone suggest an alternate floating point emulation library for
 > gcc-2.95.2?
 > 
 > I'm running on an SH-2 target (no FP coprocessor), and would like better
 > FP performance than the stock gcc library offers--- ~1300 clocks for
 > double mult.  Although, considering that it's written entirely in C,
 > that ain't too shabby.
 > 
 > C and/or ASM is ok.  GPL or LGPL (or similar) is also ok.  In fact, as a
 > last resort even a commercial library would be ok.

tege (Torbjorn Granlund) submitted an alternative fp library to
the gcc mailing list.  Dunno if it has made it into the gcc
development tree.

Search the gcc mailing list archives for a message from tege regarding
fp libraries.

You'll probably have to spend some time getting it to work for your
port, but IIRC it is better in terms of speed.

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