From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30669 invoked by alias); 5 May 2004 07:10:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 30661 invoked from network); 5 May 2004 07:10:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta5.wss.scd.yahoo.com) (66.218.85.36) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 May 2004 07:10:25 -0000 Received: from specifixinc.com (24.7.123.142) by mta5.wss.scd.yahoo.com (7.0.016) (authenticated as jim@tuliptree.org) id 409259B10025B41D; Wed, 5 May 2004 00:09:55 -0700 Message-ID: <40989367.7000506@specifixinc.com> Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 07:10:00 -0000 From: Jim Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030716 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kean Johnston CC: "Joseph S. Myers" , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Promoting floats to doubles? References: <409493B7.6040108@sco.com> <4096AE14.7000505@specifixinc.com> <4096EEAE.60105@sco.com> <1083643245.1258.151.camel@leaf.tuliptree.org> <4097D44D.5090105@sco.com> <1083703482.1063.5.camel@leaf.tuliptree.org> <40982DD0.5070200@sco.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-05/txt/msg00199.txt.bz2 Kean Johnston wrote: > program can (and most liekly will) link against things like libm.so, > which was compiled by the SCO compiler, and which requires these > convesions, so the point Joseph makes is valid, it shouldn't be language > specific. Thinking about this some more, I am starting to think that Joseph is right. floorf is a C99 function, so we can't change its prototype, thus we need an ABI change rather than a C front end change. -- Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com