From: Erik S. <esc...@pe...> - 2011-11-09 13:40:28
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On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Carlos Sánchez de La Lama <car...@ur...> wrote: >> Anyways, it seems the math lib of Newlib is nicely separable so we could include it in pocl to avoid the requirement of Newlib installed? The license is a bit unclear but I think it's a BSD license for the libm part. We could just copy the 'math' dir from the Newlib to the source tree and then the various kernel lib implementations can cherry pick the codes they need from there (at source code level due to the different bitcode targets). The math lib is not the only thing that could be useful. For example, printf is a very useful OpenCL extension that should be supported. The underlying I/O stream representation probably needs to be implemented from scratch, but the formatting code should work fine. -erik -- Erik Schnetter <esc...@pe...> http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~eschnett/ AIM: eschnett247, Skype: eschnett, Google Talk: sch...@gm... |