PowerPC: Optimized mpn functions for PowerPC64/POWER7

Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Tue Dec 3 20:56:00 GMT 2013


On Tue, 3 Dec 2013, Will Schmidt wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 12:15 -0200, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> > This patch add optimized __mpn_add_n/__mpn_sub_n for PowerPC64/POWER7.
> > They are originally from GMP with adjustments for GLIBC. It provides a
> > small boost for mpn_divrem.
> 
> "originally from GMP" - can you clarify that a bit?  From a glance, GMP
> appears to be GPL v.3.  I'm unclear how that gets massaged into 2.r1
> here.

See Roland's previous comments about permission to use GMP code under the 
glibc license dating from when GMP was GPLv1.

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Joseph S. Myers
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