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On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 04:59:37PM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > >>>>> Jakub Jelinek writes: > > Jakub> On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 03:37:43PM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > >> > >> Since the soft-fp stuff is now in, how can I use it? Which ports do > >> benefit from it? I'm interested in using the long double support for > >> Mips. Is this possible? > > Jakub> It's an IEEE software emulation framework, so everywhere you need software > Jakub> math emulation of the basic operations (+,-,*,/,sqrt,comparisons) you can > Jakub> use it. > > Do you have any example for it? Is soft-fp anywhere used already in > glibc? It is currently used on sparc64-*-linux for the _Qp_* routines (IEEE quad emulation), see soft-fp/sysdeps/sparc/sparc64/ and also in the Linux kernel (sparc, sparc64, alpha math emulation). Cheers, Jakub ___________________________________________________________________ Jakub Jelinek | jakub@redhat.com | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/~jj Linux version 2.3.38 on a sparc64 machine (1343.49 BogoMips) ___________________________________________________________________
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