Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Float to int conversions
From: Fred Gleason (fredg_AT_wava.com)
Date: Thu Nov 01 2001 - 18:48:54 EET
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Paul Davis wrote:
> many other platforms (e.g. MIPS) do float<->int phenomenally well just
> via a cast. it seems to me that it would be "cleverer" to define a
> portable solution, if you're going to be willing to use autoconf, that
> defines FLOAT_TO_INT, but make it platform specific and possibly a
> no-op if the platform's cast does the job properly.
Perhaps this is a naive question, but shouldn't we be having this
discussion with the maintainers of egcs/gcc? Methinks the easiest way to
handle this would be to optimize the cast mechanism to work properly with
Intel hardware. Or is there a deeper issue here I'm ignorant of?
Cheers!
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