Re: newlib ieeefp.h again

[Craig Howland <howland@LGSInnovations.com>]

On 03/23/2017 04:23 PM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
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> On 3/23/2017 3:05 PM, Craig Howland wrote:
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>> On 03/23/2017 02:58 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>> ...
>>> I would move the _LDBL_EQ_DBL definition to <ieeefp.h> based on compiler
>>> provided defines.
>>>
>> The primary question is whether this is truly possible or not, which will depend
>> upon both what compiler and how old of a compiler version newlib wants to
>> support.  Back in 2009 when _LDBL_EQ_DBL was added to newlib.hin, this was not
>> really possible as both float.h and compiler predefines were spotty.  As long as
>> we don't need to go back too many versions, it ought to be fine to do it at
>> build time now.
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> The common answer to this type of question is to say that if they
> are using old versions of gcc, they can also use old versions of
> newlib.
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> If this is not an issue as recently as gcc say 4.4 or 4.5, that
> is still very old. Do you recall a gcc version which couldn't be
> detected at build time?
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> --joel
At that time, I think I was using GCC 4.1 and 2.95 (both PowerPC cross 
compiler--vendor toolsets mostly took pretty long to update versions back then).