[PATCH RFC] allow inline intrinsics for __ieee754_sqrt/f

Wilco Dijkstra Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com
Fri Aug 17 15:05:00 GMT 2018


jon@beniston.com wrote: 

> The code calls __builtin_sqrt, not sqrt. It's that I want to inline. If you
> change to call sqrt, you'll potentially get recursion.

You mean __ieee754_sqrt? You can replace all calls to it by sqrt,
except for w_sqrt.c and wf_sqrt.c where you leave it as is.
So there is no recursion.

> On the <0 path, GCC still calls sqrt in order to set errno.

Sure, but correct code executes the sqrt instruction, not the call.

Wilco
    


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