From: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 08:33:27 -0700
Rather I was interested in introducing a scaled math header. It
would contain routines to allow access to the 64 bit mpy and div
instructions, which ,of course, can be done in C but, if you don't
want the 64-bit lib, must be done with a rather large bit of code to
do simple s32=s64/s32 and s32=s64%s32 calculations. And, on 64-bit
archs the whole problem goes away.
I think you want to do something more like what the byteorder swabbing
interfaces do. Let the arch override whatever it'd like to optimize,
but provide default 32-bit/64-bit centric "implementations" under
linux/scaled_math/
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