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Re: Minimum floating-point requirements
- From: Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal dot cx>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>, Steve Munroe <sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com>, Adhemerval Zanella <azanella at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 23:59:46 -0500
- Subject: Re: Minimum floating-point requirements
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On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 05:21:29PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> But I think this is a matter of imposing a decision about the PowerPC
> "ecosystem" (see <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html>) on
> glibc as much as imposing anything from glibc on anything else. And the
> ultimate question is about the GNU system rather than that "ecosystem".
Indeed. I see this issue as PowerPC folks imposing their legacy
brokenness on everybody else (libc and application developers who have
to work around it).
Rich