Don't optimize by hand (Was Re: Lack of fabsf on Solaris (patch included))

Fri Jan 26 05:52:00 GMT 2001

Tom Tromey writes:
 > >>>>> "Bryce" == Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz> writes:
 > 
 > Bryce> Is there some reason why Math::abs(float) and friends can't
 > Bryce> just be implemented as "__builtin_fabsf()", etc, in libgcj?
 > 
 > Oops... in this particular situation it is very unlikely to make a
 > difference. And we probably don't really implement strict fp
 > semantics anyway
The last time that I ran any tests we were 100% strict fp perfect.
That's better than the other Java implementation I tried!
Andrew.