[LLVMdev] [RFC] Add a simple soft-float class

[Duncan P. N. Exon Smith]

> On 2014 Jun 17, at 21:11, Rafael Avila de Espindola <rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If we require the host to have sse2 or other IEEE 754 conformant  implementation, would it be possible to use hardware float?

I'm not sure what's stopping us -- I just know they don't work well.

See responses to Andy's suggestion in March [1] and the ugly patch [2] I committed in r206765 for some other context.

[1]: http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20140317/209336.html
[2]: http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20140421/213726.html