Re: GLIBC 2.2 should work on MIPS-Linux

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 09:22:34PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:

> Pick the good out of all ? :) Honestly - We should keep an eye on 
> memory footprint as the embedded people will be very interested in this.
> 
> How much work would the IRIX ones be and what is the difference between
> the two ? Are they probably available as they are right now to just
> publish them and someone with a lot time may produce a superset for Linux ?

There are two FP emulators in IRIX.  The first one is fairly old, was already
used in RISC/os and is written in assembler.  I'm not sure if it can
properly deal with MIPS IV.  It's successor is written in C and is what's
currently being used in IRIX, is pretty clean and maintainable code.  It
was clearly written with a heavily optimizing compiler such as SGI's in
mind and I assume that it won't perform well without major restructuring 
when compiled with GCC.  On the other side it's as far as I know the only
package that gets all the cornercases right.

  Ralf