Richard Guenther wrote: > Hi, > > Following RMS request of removing source copies of other projects I > asked him if he considers it ok to have copies of the generic math > transcendentals routines of glibc in libgcc-math and to distribute > them under GPL + libgcc exception clause license. He denied that > request and so, after doing the emergency-removal of the wrongly > licensed double parts from libgcc-math I am going to remove the float > parts as well. This renders the SSE2 abi math functions support > unusable, so I am going forward and remove the following middle-end > patches as well:
Yes, that seems like the right plan, given RMS' decision. > As we're far into stage3 now I propose to remove libgcc-math from the > mainline again and re-instantiate it at the beginning of stage1 again. Again, I think that's a good idea. > Another option would be to remove the library only after branching > for 4.2 and only on that branch. I think it's better to remove it from mainline, just so that if there are any build issues we catch them before we branch. Thanks, -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery [EMAIL PROTECTED] (650) 331-3385 x713
