Maybe we should get rid of ifuncs

Zack Weinberg zack@owlfolio.org
Wed Apr 24 13:54:11 GMT 2024


On Tue Apr 23, 2024 at 3:26 PM EDT, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> libgcc on powerpc uses ifuncs for selection of IEEE 128-bit float
> software vs hardware implementation (they are linked into every binary
> using long double arithmetic).

That's still selecting machine code based on characteristics of the
CPU, isn't it?

zw


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