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Date: Tue,  7 Jan 2020 16:06:05 +0300
From: Alexander Monakov <amonakov@...ras.ru>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: [PATCH] math: move i386 sqrt to C

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Since union ldshape does not have a dedicated field for 32 least significant
bits of the x87 long double mantissa, keeping the original approach with

    ux.i.m -= (fpsr & 0x200) - 0x100;

would lead to a 64-bit subtraction that is not trivial for the compiler to
optimize to 32-bit subtraction as done in the original assembly. Therefore
I have elected to change the approach and use

    ux.i.m ^= (fpsr & 0x200) + 0x200;

which is easier to optimize to a 32-bit rather than 64-bit xor.

Thoughts?

 src/math/i386/sqrt.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
 src/math/i386/sqrt.s | 21 ---------------------
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 src/math/i386/sqrt.c
 delete mode 100644 src/math/i386/sqrt.s


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