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Date:      Sat, 8 Feb 2003 03:26:19 -0800
From:      David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at>
Cc:        standards@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: C99 floating point macros
Message-ID:  <20030208112619.GA15718@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030207194848.N353@leelou.in.tern>
References:  <20030207194848.N353@leelou.in.tern>

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Thus spake Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at>:
> I hope I don't sound too stupid but I'd like to contribute something to
> FreeBSD. Looking through the C99 status board I found noone has started
> working on implementation of the C99 macros isgreater, isless etc. If I
> read the standard correctly it doesn't seem to be so hard to implement
> them, but I'm having some questions:
> 
> *) Where should I put additional source files / change existing ones to
>    confirm to the FreeBSD source tree?

If your changes are MI macros, then they go in math.h.  Otherwise,
look at the forthcoming machine/_math.h.

> *) Regarding different architectures: is there anything I need to take
>    care of?

I have some MI patches for these; they're all one-liners, but they
involve calls to fpclassify().  (I guess isnan() would be better,
as you suggest.)  They would be several times faster if
implemented in an MD manner (e.g. the fucom instruction for the
i387), but I don't know if anyone cares.

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