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From: "Zack Weinberg" <zack@owlfolio.org>
To: "Andreas Schwab" <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Maybe we should get rid of ifuncs
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:54:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D0SEJHNAO87M.247R5N4JRMHVV@owlfolio.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874jbrswxg.fsf@igel.home>

On Tue Apr 23, 2024 at 3:26 PM EDT, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> libgcc on powerpc uses ifuncs for selection of IEEE 128-bit float
> software vs hardware implementation (they are linked into every binary
> using long double arithmetic).

That's still selecting machine code based on characteristics of the
CPU, isn't it?

zw

  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-24 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-23 18:14 Zack Weinberg
2024-04-23 18:39 ` enh
2024-04-23 19:46   ` Palmer Dabbelt
2024-04-24 13:56   ` Zack Weinberg
2024-04-24 14:25     ` enh
2024-04-23 18:52 ` Sam James
2024-04-23 18:54 ` Florian Weimer
2024-04-24 13:53   ` Zack Weinberg
2024-04-23 19:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2024-04-24 13:54   ` Zack Weinberg [this message]
2024-04-24  1:41 ` Richard Henderson
2024-04-24 14:43   ` Zack Weinberg
2024-04-24 15:09     ` enh
2024-04-28  0:24     ` Peter Bergner
2024-05-02  2:59       ` Michael Meissner
2024-04-30  8:42 ` Simon Josefsson

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