Re: [avr-gcc-list] Double desirability

[Joerg Wunsch]

Parthasaradhi Nayani <address@hidden> wrote:

> I am wiilling to develop the code, but I am not sure about the time
> frame as of now. If the current code is in assembly, then I would
> prefer to continue the same in assembly and also try and plug the
> holes.

It's not strictly the requirement I would impose though.  The existing
code has proven to be very hard to maintain (and the existing NaN/Inf/
denormal handling bugs are unlikely to be fixable without rewriting a
lot of it), so if a non-assembler implementation would get us to say
110...120 % of the code size of the assembler hacks we've got now, but
with a 500 % maintainability improvement, I wouldn't mourn.  Floating
point is certainly not really suitable for an ATtiny2313 anyway.

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J"org Wunsch                                           Unix support engineer
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