[PATCH 0/9] Introduce ieee128 symbols and redirections

Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho tuliom@linux.ibm.com
Wed Jun 13 20:25:00 GMT 2018


Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:

> As a general principle, I'd suggest using a consistent naming convention 
> for all the ieee128 function variants being added in both libc and libm.  
> So, if __ieee128_* is used in libc that would indicate functions such as 
> __ieee128_cosl in libm, for example.  (For the libm functions this is 
> presumably mainly a matter of how a few macros get defined.)

Ack.  We're planning to use the format __*ieee128 everywhere.
However, there are cases that need special treatment and will be slightly
different, e.g.:  __nextowardf_to_ieee128 and __nexttoward_to_ieee128.

Is that OK?

-- 
Tulio Magno



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