Use round functions not __round functions in glibc libm [committed]
Joseph Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
Thu Sep 27 13:58:00 GMT 2018
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > It's logically correct to let the compiler make such an
> > optimization; an appropriate asm redirection of lroundl to __lroundl
> > is thus added to that file (it's not needed anywhere else).
>
> ... wouldn't it be better to put this redirection in include/math.h
> anyway, so that if it becomes needed in another place in the future,
> we won't have to do anything special to enable it?
That would then also require NO_MATH_REDIRECT to be defined in lots of
files defining lround functions. Which is not necessarily a bad idea, but
we don't seem to have anywhere else wanting to call lround functions from
within libm and thus benefiting from inlining them, at present.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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