libm support for ARMv7 and VSQRT?

[Sebastian Huber]

Hello,

there is some ARM-specific libm support for ARMv8:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=tree;f=newlib/libm/machine/arm;h=5457f11619b2d67e8f56f352afb404c06a12c2bb;hb=HEAD

The VFPv2+ supports a VSQRT instruction. Would it make sense to use it 
for the sqrt() implementation, similar to

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=blob;f=newlib/libm/machine/aarch64/e_sqrt.c;h=e4b7554ac1811bf04f726da198b913c0c30595ca;hb=HEAD
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=blob;f=newlib/libm/machine/aarch64/ef_sqrt.c;h=19fec952517769ad3851efef3b11dc6c02fb7582;hb=HEAD

?

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