From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21575 invoked by alias); 19 Jul 2011 07:25:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 21565 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Jul 2011 07:25:04 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from tirion.supremecenter202.com (HELO tirion.supremecenter202.com) (209.25.195.243) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:24:41 +0000 Received: from [195.189.206.101] (port=42676 helo=[192.168.209.12]) by tirion.supremecenter202.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qj4fY-0000QR-1h for ecos-devel@ecos.sourceware.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:24:40 +0000 Message-ID: <4E253131.3030607@siva.com.mk> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:25:00 -0000 From: Ilija Kocho User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110628 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eCos developers Subject: Single precision math library, porting to eCos. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact ecos-devel-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-devel-owner@ecos.sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-07/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 Hello colleagues We are working on a port of Newlib's single precision math library /float/ type functions/. We are going to contribute the port, so we would like to know if there is interest to incorporate it into main eCos tree. Rartionale: Some recent/upcoming architectures such as Cortex-M4, Cortex-R, MPC 55xx can execute single precision floating point in hardware. This is also recognised by GCC, for instance GCC 4.6 can generate /-mhard-float/ code for Cortex-M4. Regards Ilija Kocho, manager SIvA doo http://www.siva.mk