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Re: [PATCH 0/6] Generate Complex functions from a common template.
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: "Paul E. Murphy" <murphyp at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 22:32:27 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Generate Complex functions from a common template.
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On Thu, 30 Jun 2016, Paul E. Murphy wrote:
> math-type-macros.h hides much of the complexity of the
> aliasing for the common case, with cpow10 beings the
> exception. Likewise, some heavily used functions
There's no such function as cpow10.
> Finally, a few functions have some very minor drift
> between the float, double, and ldouble variants. I
> have preserved these in order to keep my sanity
> when validating the generated code has not changed
> meaningifully.
In such cases, the right thing to do is to have preliminary patches that
only address the drift, so that the comparison is clean in the subsequent
stages.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com