PATCH: BZ 464: IA64 math functions aren't weak

[H. J. Lu]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 11:54:43AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> H. J. Lu wrote:
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> > We just want to make ia64 behave the same as other targets.
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> And I've told you that this has rather been an unnecessary than a
> correct and necessary change.  So stop it.  If a function's
> implementation is not correct or good, fix it.

People want to override the math functions in glibc not because they
are bad. I don't believe any OS vendor will provide many optimized
libm.a for every different flavor of a given target. There are always
be cases where a user wants some highly optimized math functions for
his/her specific target and/or environment to get the last bit of
floating point performance. Currently, people can do it on many targets,
except for ia64.


H.J.