Re: Calling conventions (particularly 32-bit ARM)

On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:53:55 +0000, Scott Lurndal wrote:

mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) writes:

On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:02:10 +0000, Thomas Koenig wrote:
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MitchAlsup1 <mitchalsup@aol.com> schrieb:
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errno is an atrocity all by itself; single handedly preventing
direct use of SIN(), COS(), TAN(), ATAN(), exp(), ln(), pow()
as instructions.

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Fortunately, the C standard does not require errno to be set
for these functions.  Apple, for example, does not do so.

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Nor will I.

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POSIX does, however, require errno to be set conditionally
based on an application global variable 'math_errhandling'.

The functions mentioned have the property of taking x as
any IEEE 754 number (including NaNs, infinities, denorms)
and produce a IEEE 754 number {NaNs, infinities, norms,
denorms}.
But if POSIX wants to spend as many cycles setting errno
as performing the calculation, that is for POSIX to decide.
But with functions that take 754 arguments and produce 754
results, it seems unnecessary.