[patches] Including IBM add-ons in EGLIBC?

[Mark Mitchell <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Geoff Smith at IBM asked me to forward the following note about possibly
functionality to include in EGLIBC.

Perhaps the EGLIBC maintainers could comment?

> IBM has two add-ons for glibc that might be of interest to eglibc -- feel 
> free to pick them up if appropriate.  Of course, we would provide 
> assistance.
> 
> 1. powerpc-cpu add-on (implements CPU-tuned environment for powerpc)
> 
> http://penguinppc.org/dev/glibc/glibc-powerpc-cpu-addon.html
> 
> Interest: Libraries tuned to a specific CPU, useful for applications that 
> would run platforms with more than one processor variant (for example, 
> runs on a platform that is upgraded to a new CPU, and it must still run on 
> the old one)
> 
> Possible work -- add optimizations for Freescale's E500 cpus, extend to 
> non-powerpc CPUs
> 
> 2. DFP add-on
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2006-11/msg00019.html
> 
> Motivation: Provide library support for DFP types, introduced in gcc 4.2. 
> DFP is a feature of interest for point-of-sale terminals, an embedded 
> application. 
> 
> Possible work -- actually, we think this is pretty complete now. 

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