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From: Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com>
To: Jon Beniston <jon@beniston.com>,
	"aadit0402@gmail.com"	<aadit0402@gmail.com>
Cc: "newlib@sourceware.org" <newlib@sourceware.org>, nd <nd@arm.com>
Subject: Re: Adding fenv.h for ARM and SPARC
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 14:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DB6PR0801MB205358B109A34DBE09677255838C0@DB6PR0801MB2053.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <012301d314f1$36362bb0$a2a28310$@beniston.com>

Jon Beniston wrote:
>>When you use software floating point there is no need for fenv. The
> rounding mode is
>> fixed and there are no exceptions. 
>
> That's not true for the softfloat lib though (assuming we're talking about
> (http://www.jhauser.us/arithmetic/SoftFloat.html) - which I believe supports
> both.

I was guessing that wasn't what the OP meant. The spu target was mentioned,
which has an fenv implementation in newlib - but that is for hardware floating point.

But yes it would be good if the OP clarifies what they are proposing.

Wilco



    

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-14 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-14 10:26 Wilco Dijkstra
2017-08-14 12:46 ` Jon Beniston
2017-08-14 14:05   ` Wilco Dijkstra [this message]
2017-08-14 15:25     ` Joel Sherrill
2017-08-16 13:23       ` Szabolcs Nagy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-08-14  6:06 Aditya Upadhyay
2017-08-14  8:48 ` Corinna Vinschen

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