Re: [Tinycc-devel] C99 complex type support

[Chris Marshall]

Thanks for the reply, Edmund.

The main thing I was looking for was support
for complex arithmetic in expressions with
+, -, *, and /.  Anything in function call form
can be readily implemented by hand.

Regards,
Chris


On 11/18/2015 06:53, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote:
> > I'm currently working on some experiments to
> > use tinycc as a JIT compiler for the computational
> > code for a portable numeric library (the Perl
> > Data Language, http://pdl.perl.org).
> >
> > We have a requirement to support computation
> > with complex numbers and arithmetic (C99).
> > The initial developments look promising.
> >
> > Is there a plan and/or schedule to implement
> > complex numbers for TinyCC?
> I don't think so. I've not seen any mention of any such plan.
>
> Generally I have the impression that people don't use C99's complex
> numbers. Perhaps it was made optional in C11 partly because of that.
> Perhaps people get better performance, as well as better portability,
> by implementing complex numbers themselves.
>
> However, C99 does provide a standard API and ABI, which is useful.
>
> Edmund