[PATCH v4 18/21] math: Remove the SVID error handling wrapper from sqrt

Wilco Dijkstra Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com
Wed Oct 29 22:08:55 GMT 2025


Hi Adhemerval,

> PowerPC utilizes an architecture-specific implementation that leverages
> the FMA instruction on chips that lack fsqrt support.  To enable generic
> symbol and SVID handling, most of the implementation has been moved to
> e_sqrtf_impl.h.

Do we really need to keep an optimization(?) that is only used on PPC 601/603
hardware? We're talking about 30+ year old hardware here, the 604 got sqrt(f)
back in 1994!

Cheers,
Wilco


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