Re: [avr-gcc-list] Double desirability

[Parthasaradhi Nayani]

--- Joerg Wunsch <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

I agree with you that it would be better to develop
the FP library from scratch in 'C'. Not just the
tiny2313 but i guess  even mega8 (and others of
similar sized) may not be controller where one would
like to use FP routines. But then choice will be that
of the user.

Nayani





                
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