From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from systemhalted (CPE0080c82c70ca.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [24.112.224.149]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 918EF4829 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 08:03:38 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:03:47 -0500 From: Carlos O'Donell To: John David Anglin Cc: willy@debian.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, tausq@debian.org, jbailey@nisa.net Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] glibc 2.3.1 - It's alive! - patches Message-ID: <20021111150347.GA8848@systemhalted> References: <200211110345.gAB3jgdF001254@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> <200211110426.gAB4QDnH001302@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200211110426.gAB4QDnH001302@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: > > Nope, we need it. Sparc uses library calls like "_Q_add" for the basic > operations on quad values. > > Dave We need it or else we have to fall back on completely software emulated quad arithmetic. Though the framework for replacing all those function calls is available. Note that GMP was included in the libc tree at one point, but recently it's rotted away and Roland was recently removing the last bits in 2002-09-20. I'm not sure what ever came of this? It looks like GMP 2.0 was pushed into the tree in '96 as a generic method for doing unlimited precision math? I've only just realized how usefull having extremely descriptive Changelog's can be :) c.