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Re: Make strtod respect the rounding mode (bug 14518)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at twiddle dot net>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, <libc-ports at sourceware dot org>, Andreas Krebbel<krebbel at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, "Ryan S. Arnold" <ryan dot arnold at gmail dot com>, MikeFrysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at systemhalted dot org>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:04:51 +0000
- Subject: Re: Make strtod respect the rounding mode (bug 14518)
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1208292343190.30000@digraph.polyomino.org.uk><503FC55A.9080907@twiddle.net>
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, Richard Henderson wrote:
> While I *could* commit a patch like the following, I'd like an
> opinion on whether the existing defines could be trashed and the
> file re-imagined as something more friendly for native. Given
> of course that at present there cannot be any users since the
> actual _FPU_G/SETCW macros do not exist.
>
> Or whether the file should be trashed and I'll just implement
> bits/rounding-mode.h. Which honestly seems like it'd be the
> most efficient for the use in question.
I have no views on what's right for the alpha port here.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com