Adding "long double" SPARC-gcc intrinsics to uclibc

[Konrad Eisele]

Austin Foxley wrote:
> On 11/18/2010 04:29 AM, Konrad Eisele wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have a patch that adds the "long double" SPARC-gcc intrinsics to uclibc,
>> the (_Q_xxx functions). They where currently empty defined in
>> libc/sysdeps/linux/sparc/qp_ops.c. The routines are taken from glibc:
>> glibc-2.9/sysdeps/sparc/sparc32/soft-fp/*
>>
>> Because the patch is 200k I think it will not go through the list filter,
>> so I first send it as a link and then as a attachment in another mail:
>>
>> ftp://gaisler.com/gaisler.com/tmp/uClibc-0.9.31-quad-routines.patch
> 
> Thanks for this. I had been previously solving this issue with uClibc on
> leon with a patch to GCC based on the glibc soft-fp. You can find it
> here: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-04/msg01137.html if you are
> interested. (no long double support though)
> 
> That said, I have no problem committing this into uClibc, as my patch is
> unlikely to ever make it into gcc.
> 
> It didn't apply perfectly to master, but I fixed it up and committed it.
> Please test and patch against the master branch in the future.

Thanks for the work.

> 
> On an unrelated note, I've done quite a bit of work porting the original
> gaisler patches forward to current uClibc and nptl. Would you mind
> testing out master branch, and sending any further patches you have?

Ok, I'll switch to master next. Patches will be submitted.
-- Thanks Konrad

> 
> Thanks,
> Austin
> 
> 
>>
>> -- Greetings Konrad
>>
>> Possible Changelog entry:
>>
>> ---------------
>> Subject: Adding quad float gcc intrinsic implementation for SPARC
>>
>> Sparc-Gcc generates q_xxx intrinsic calls for quad float ("long double")
>> code.  The routines from glibc's glibc-2.9/sysdeps/sparc/sparc32/soft-fp/*
>> where taken and ported to uclibc.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Konrad Eisele <konrad at gaisler.com>
>>
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