Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/24] re-factor and add fp16 using glibc soft-fp

[Peter Maydell]

On 4 February 2018 at 04:11, Richard Henderson
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Or there's the code from glibc.  I know Peter didn't like the idea;
> debugging this code is fairly painful -- the massive preprocessor
> macros mean that you can't step through anything.  But at least we
> have a good relationship with glibc, so merging patches back and
> forth should be easy.

Yeah. I didn't like dealing with this code two decades ago
when I first encountered it, and it hasn't improved any.
It's pretty much write-only code, and it isn't going to be
any fun for debugging.

thanks
-- PMM