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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mips: add single-instruction math functions
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 20:18:04 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <965098322.20190918201804@mobile-stream.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190913183123.GI9017@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

R> Why is this dependent on __mips_abs2008?

There is also __mips_nan2008 (always set for hard-float R6 and -mnan=2008).

Binaries built with this option (implicit or not) are unusable on -mnan=legacy system, this is enforced by kernel (unless booted with some debugging option).

The fabs code could be changed to also depend on __mips_nan2008 (since these ISA features are paired) to prevent -mabs=2008 musl on -mabs=legacy system (rather unrealistic).

Why is it wrong to depend on fine-grained ISA features after all?
Why is it wrong to explicitly depend e.g. on __mips_dsp in the strchr code fearing improper usage on a system without DSP ASE?

powerpc64, s390x have similar ifdefs in their math code and IIUC nothing prevents running (until SIGILL) statically-linked _ARCH_PWR5X binary on an _ARCH_PWR5 system.

Or some powerpc64 code depends on __VSX__. Is it wrong to depend on __mips_msa?

What is different with mips here?




  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-18 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-11 10:05 info
2019-09-11 11:46 ` Rich Felker
2019-09-12 17:57 ` Rich Felker
2019-09-13 11:46   ` info
2019-09-13 18:31 ` Rich Felker
2019-09-13 18:56   ` Rich Felker
2019-09-13 19:12     ` James Y Knight
2019-09-13 20:01       ` Rich Felker
2019-09-13 20:23         ` Rich Felker
2019-09-18 13:07   ` info
2019-09-18 13:49     ` Rich Felker
2019-09-18 17:18   ` info [this message]
2019-09-18 20:04     ` Rich Felker
2019-09-19 12:54       ` info
2019-09-19 13:14         ` Rich Felker
2019-09-19 13:25           ` Rich Felker
2019-09-19 18:26           ` info
2019-09-19 19:10             ` Rich Felker
2019-10-14 14:18 ` Rich Felker

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