[uClibc]Making a _real_ release of uClibc

David Schleef ds at schleef.org
Sat Nov 24 01:41:47 UTC 2001


On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 04:30:45AM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote:
> I've been fixing up some important bugs in uClibc over the last
> few days (fixed the last of the header file problems, fixed
> sigsuspend, adding missing headers, completely replaced the math
> lib, etc).

I noticed that libm doesn't use processor built-in trig instructions
on i386, particularily 'fcos', 'fsin' and friends.  Not an issue
for PowerPC, as it doesn't have built-in instructions.  Does
anyone know the speed difference between internal 'fcos' and
doing it in software?  Glibc uses them.



dave...






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