[PATCH] Implement __abs?f2 functions in soft-fp
Roland McGrath
roland@redhat.com
Fri Nov 1 18:31:00 GMT 2002
> Very true. However, without support for __abs?f2 in soft-fp, glibc's
> implementation of fabs/fabsf/fabsl is probably the same inefficient
> compare against zero, and conditional negation sequence that GCC emits
> inline.
Obviously fabs et al should then be defined in libc with the new code.
I had not considered -ffree-standing and that might be a reason for gcc to
behave differently. But GCC people and not libc people are the ones who
decide what the libgcc interface is that gcc -ffree-standing emits code for.
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