arm fenv support - static inline of methods

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca
Wed May 13 18:17:17 GMT 2020


On 2020-05-13 08:11, Joel Sherrill wrote:

> Eshan Dhawan is an RTEMS GSoC 2020 student working on adding more POSIX
> methods to RTEMS and newlib if appropriate. He is currently looking at
> adding more
> fenv.h implementations.
> 
> The FreeBSD implementation of arm fenv.h has static inlines for all the
> methods in sys/fenv.h. Is this OK? Or should they be turned into real
> bodies in a C file?

Don't all functions need to be provided as linkable implementations for cases
where they are invoked using their address directly or indirectly, unless the
standards agree they don't need to be?

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