Adding isinfl() and isnanl()
Corinna Vinschen
vinschen@redhat.com
Sat Feb 7 09:45:54 GMT 2026
On Feb 6 14:30, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2026-02-05 17:53, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 9:28 AM Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com
> > <mailto:vinschen@redhat.com>> wrote:
> > On Feb 5 09:09, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > math.h:123 has isinfl () and isnanl() as this:
> > > [...]
> > > The winsup implementation has them as simple wrappers for the
> > > corresponding built-in functions such as __builtin_isinf_sign().
> > >
> > > If I copied the winsup/ implementation and put each in a new file
> > > in newlib/libm so they are always available, is that OK?
> >
> > Barring other problems, you should just move them out of winsup into
> > newlib.
> >
> > > If so, any suggestions on location inside libm for simple wrappers
> > > for the corresponding builtin?
> >
> > libm/common
> >
> > > What would the conditional guard need to be? Just Cygwin and RTEMS?
> > > or more?
> >
> > I think this would have to be target cpu dependent.
> >
> > > Anything I am missing?
> >
> > Is it a safe bet that these builtins are available as inline functions
> > on all supported target cpus and compilers? Unimplemented builtins just
> > point to their corresponding C lib function, isn't it?
>
> You can use __has_builtin since gcc 10:
>
> $ info cpp __has_builtin # gcc 13.4 4.2.9
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-13.4.0/cpp/_005f_005fhas_005fbuiltin.html
>
> $ info gcc 'C Extensions' 'Other Builtins' # gcc 13.4 6.59
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-13.4.0/gcc/Other-Builtins.html
>
> Two paras above builtin_alloca:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-13.4.0/gcc/Other-Builtins.html#index-_005f_005fbuiltin_005falloca
>
> ...
> "GCC provides built-in versions of the ISO C99 floating-point comparison
> macros that avoid raising exceptions for unordered operands.
> They have the same names as the standard macros ( ‘isgreater’, ‘isgreaterequal’,
> ‘isless’, ‘islessequal’, ‘islessgreater’, and ‘isunordered’) , with
> ‘__builtin_’ prefixed.
> *We intend for a library implementor to be able to simply ‘#define’ each
> standard macro to its built-in equivalent.*
> In the same fashion, GCC provides ‘fpclassify’, ‘isfinite’, ‘isinf_sign’,
> ‘isnormal’ and ‘signbit’ built-ins used with ‘__builtin_’ prefixed.
> The ‘isinf’ and ‘isnan’ built-in functions appear both with and without the
> ‘__builtin_’ prefix.
> With ‘-ffinite-math-only’ option the ‘isinf’ and ‘isnan’ built-in functions
> will always return 0."
>
> > Thanks. This one comment makes me want to avoid doing this.
> >
> > I can easily test the ~15 RTEMS architectures but that leaves a lot
> > I can't easily check. I will see if the code using this can be done a different
> > way. Suggestions on that?
>
> Avoid target builtins?
What about platforms not implementing FP functions in silicon?
Corinna
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