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From: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
To: <iain@sandoe.co.uk>
Cc: <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>, Iain Sandoe <iains.gcc@gmail.com>,
	<ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Darwin, crts: Provide scalb and significand as a crt [PR107631]
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 22:26:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83b1e9f-1b4f-5fc2-90b2-8cf6e97d35db@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221230102046.8287-1-iain@sandoe.co.uk>

On Fri, 30 Dec 2022, Iain Sandoe via Gcc-patches wrote:

> This patch is providing functions used by the modula-2 implementation.
> 
> At present, I've used a crt rather than adding symbols to libgcc, since
> it is not clear if the modula-2 might alter the use of scalb to scalbn
> (although that will not solve the missing significand* symbols).
> 
> I plan to apply the patch early next week (it is Darwin-specific) unless
> there are any comments on the implementation.

I think it would be better to change Modula-2 to avoid using these 
obsolescent functions, rather than providing them in GCC.  (But if 
provided, the libgcc runtime license exception should be used.)

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-30 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-30 10:20 Iain Sandoe
2022-12-30 22:26 ` Joseph Myers [this message]
2022-12-31 12:12   ` Iain Sandoe
2023-01-03 18:15     ` Joseph Myers
2023-01-03 20:07       ` Iain Sandoe
2023-01-03 21:34         ` Joseph Myers

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