Re: libmoto PowerPC-optimized math library?
Quoting "C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>:
> "MD" == Michel Daenzer <daenzerm@student.ethz.ch>
>
> MD> I've just replaced -lm in the Makefiles by -lmoto, and I've
> MD> noticed that the binary is still dynamically linked against
> MD> libm - is there anything else I have to do for libmoto to
> MD> be used?
>
> The README file that accompanies libmoto says that you should use
> it by adding ``-lmoto'' *before* the ``-lm''. The order is
> important: the linker loads functions from libraries in the order
> that it finds them, and ignores duplicate functions.
>
> You still need ``-lm'', too: libmoto only specifies a subset of
> the functions provided by the math library, and if the linker
> doesn't find the functions it needs, it will blow up.
AFAIK, this is useless because linking to libc _automatically_ links to libm. I
think this is from the recent libc or ld...
Anyway we might better drop the whole idea, except if someone steps forward to
re-do the whole libmoto in powerpc assembly with the source available. (a book,
docs ?)
/Hadess
http://hadess.net
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