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From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
To: newlib@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] libm/riscv: Fixing machine-specific fma/sqrt
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 15:11:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200904131155.GU4127@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200903205433.2108717-1-keithp@keithp.com>

On Sep  3 13:54, Keith Packard via Newlib wrote:
> RISC-V has a couple of acceleration paths that are designed to repace
> the general code for sqrt and fma.
> 
> The sqrt code was using the wrong filenames and ended up replacing the
> wrong functions (sqrt instead of __ieee754_sqrt). For builds that
> disabled errno, that code provided an alias for sqrt mapping to
> __ieee754_sqrt so things "worked".
> 
> The fma code had the right filenames, but because it only generated
> code on machines with hardware support, machines lacking it ended up
> replacing the useful general implementation with an empty object file.
> 
> To fix this, I've renamed the RISC-V sqrt files then fixed both sqrt
> and fma to #include the general code when the machine-specific code
> wasn't used.
> 
> I tested the result by making sure every libm.a generated for RISC-V
> contained exactly one of each relevant function.
> 

Pushed.

Thanks,
Corinna


      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-04 13:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-03 20:54 Keith Packard
2020-09-03 20:54 ` [PATCH 1/2] libm/riscv: Fix machine-specific sqrt build process Keith Packard
2020-09-03 20:54 ` [PATCH 2/2] libm/riscv: Use common fma code when necessary Keith Packard
2020-09-04  3:07 ` [PATCH 0/2] libm/riscv: Fixing machine-specific fma/sqrt Kito Cheng
2020-09-04  4:51   ` Keith Packard
2020-09-07 17:41     ` Joseph Myers
2020-09-07 22:52       ` Keith Packard
2020-09-04 13:11 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]

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