Re: [patches] DFP for EGLIBC

["H.J. Lu" <hjl@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:31:14AM -0700, Jim Blandy wrote:
> 
> Hi, Peter and Ryan!  How is the decimal floating point work coming
> along?  Do you have a timeline for the submission process at this
> point?

Speaking of DFP, I am investigating DFP functions optimized for
BID. libbid in gcc includes a complete set of DFP functions optimized
for BID. But only those functions used by gcc intrinsics are compiled
in gcc. I'd like to use the full libbid in eglibc. We have 3 choices:

1. Include libbid source in eglibc. We will run into license issue,
LPGL vs. GPL, as well as duplicated source trees.
2. Include the full libbid in libgcc. We will make libgcc much bigger
and we have to deal with ABI issue for libgcc_s.so.
3. Build/install libbid.a and libbid_pic.a for gcc. eglibc can
just use them in the build.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.


H.J.