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From: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
To: Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com>,
	Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs.Nagy@arm.com>
Cc: 'GNU C Library' <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] AArch64: Add support for roundeven[f]
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 14:11:14 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <040d08ec-5501-eb1b-b3a8-d5b8ffe04ef8@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <VE1PR08MB55999E84CE90366C3DBBD60783379@VE1PR08MB5599.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com>



On 08/06/2021 09:40, Wilco Dijkstra via Libc-alpha wrote:
> Hi Szabolcs,
> 
>> i checked if we can do this via builtins, but
>>
>> - __builtin_roundeven is only available since gcc-10
>> - gcc as of now is not able to inline it as single instruction.
> 
> I've created https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100966,
> but even if it did, we can't use the builtin until the minimum GCC that
> GLIBC supports inlines the builtin. So that may be quite a few years away...

I was thinking more in laying out the required internal code, by
adding the math-use-builtin-roundeven.h and the required code on
the generic implementation.  However, due current compiler support
I am not sure it is really worth.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-08 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-03 14:51 Wilco Dijkstra
2021-06-08  8:49 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2021-06-08 12:40   ` Wilco Dijkstra
2021-06-08 17:11     ` Adhemerval Zanella [this message]
2021-06-08 20:33   ` Joseph Myers

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