[PATCHv4 2/2] powerpc64le: ifunc (almost) all *f128 routines in multiarch mode

Paul E Murphy murphyp@linux.ibm.com
Thu Jun 25 16:29:31 GMT 2020



On 6/24/20 7:00 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jun 2020, Paul E Murphy via Libc-alpha wrote:
> 
>> The design intentionally keeps all of the complexity in one place
>> hidden, without changes to common code.  Doing each individually is
> 
> It's not really hidden, when it means that many new libm functions need
> architecture-specific changes.  The normal expectation is that any new
> function (whether using type-generic templates or type-specific
> implementations, whether real or complex or narrowing-real, and whatever
> internal functions might be used in the implementation) does not need
> architecture-specific changes beyond updating the ABI baselines.
> 

Can I interpret that as saying an opt-in approach to generating ifunc'ed
math functions would make a patch like this acceptable?


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