Re: arm fenv support - static inline of methods

Brian Inglis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.newlib
Organization Systematic Software
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2020-05-13 12:22, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 1:17 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> On 2020-05-13 08:11, Joel Sherrill wrote:

>>> Eshan Dhawan is an RTEMS GSoC 2020 student working on adding more POSIX
>>> methods to RTEMS and newlib if appropriate. He is currently looking at
>>> adding more
>>> fenv.h implementations.
>>>
>>> The FreeBSD implementation of arm fenv.h has static inlines for all the
>>> methods in sys/fenv.h. Is this OK? Or should they be turned into real
>>> bodies in a C file?

>> Don't all functions need to be provided as linkable implementations for 
>> cases where they are invoked using their address directly or indirectly,
>> unless the standards agree they don't need to be?

> That's what I think also but that's not how FreeBSD has implemented it.
> IMO the static inline implementations from them need to move to .c files.

I'm pretty sure I've seen somewhere in the sources, that the library has a
standard approach for doing this, as most libraries do for such common cases.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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