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

Adhemerval Zanella Netto adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Fri Oct 31 13:28:29 GMT 2025



On 29/10/25 19:08, Wilco Dijkstra wrote:
> 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!
>

I don't think we should, I will remove it.


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