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Re: Support for non-default rounding modes in the softfloat layer



>> Note that performance concerns are part of why I raised this
>> question.
> If you are concerned about performance, you aren't use softfloat.

You are if your hardware doesn't have hardfloat - and, indeed, then you
likely are even more concerned about performance.

Of course, NetBSD may not care about such machines.  But they most
certainly exist, and NetBSD even ran - runs, if you count historical
versions - on many of them.

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