arm fenv support - static inline of methods

[Joel Sherrill]

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 1:17 PM Brian Inglis <
Brian.Inglis@systematicsw.ab.ca> wrote:

> 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?
>

That's what I think also but that's not how FreeBSD has implemented it.
IMO the static inline implementations from them need to move to .c files.

--joel

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