[fpc-devel] I've asked this before, but perhaps I wasn't specific enough that time: what do ...

[Florian Klämpfl]

Am 19.12.21 um 14:52 schrieb Florian Klämpfl:
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>> Am 19.12.2021 um 14:38 schrieb Jonas Maebe via fpc-devel <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org>:
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>> On 19/12/2021 14:21, Nikolai Zhubr via fpc-devel wrote:
>>> Just out of curiosity, couldn't bochs' x87 fpu implementation be of some use here?
>>> It is approx 12k of C code and it is LGPL. Supposedly it is not fast but conformant.
>>> Or does it need to be (re-)implemented in Pascal itself?
>>> (Not implying it would be easy anyway, but still)
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>> Note that FPC needs LGPL + static linking exception (the softfloat units are in the RTL).
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> Nikolai might be right, looking at it’s license it seems usable:
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> https://github.com/lubomyr/bochs/blob/master/cpu/fpu/fsincos.cc
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> Same as the softfloat code we use it seems.
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I started a first translation and committed it to
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/tree/floatx80funcs