From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jan 27 19:59:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3384437B404; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 19:59:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0060.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.60] helo=mindspring.com) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16V2xD-0005Of-00; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 19:59:35 -0800 Message-ID: <3C54CC9A.BB1B7C60@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 19:59:22 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Wemm Cc: Alexey Zelkin , Chad David , "Andrey A. Chernov" , "Brian F. Feldman" , Bruce Evans , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strtod() References: <20020128014624.2090A3A9A@overcee.wemm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Wemm wrote: > > If this solves the problem at hand, I'd far rather that we used this gcc > > extension than yet more magic inline asm (a different gcc extension). > > The code was a proof of concept. Before using such a thing in freebsd, > we would need to do the usual magic in sys/cdefs.h along the same lines > that we define __dead2, __printflike etc. Yes. I'd like to see this become a general facility. THere are all sorts of interesting applications for such code. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message