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Don't use obsolete math implementations by default 
Enabling the old math code removes some useful functions from the
library, uses some stale code and generally isn't a good plan. The new
math code requires newer compiler features (post 1999).

Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
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keith-packard committed Oct 8, 2019
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4 newlib/libc/include/machine/ieeefp.h
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#endif

#ifndef __OBSOLETE_MATH_DEFAULT
/* Use old math code by default. */
#define __OBSOLETE_MATH_DEFAULT 1
/* Use new math code by default. */
#define __OBSOLETE_MATH_DEFAULT 0
#endif
#ifndef __OBSOLETE_MATH
#define __OBSOLETE_MATH __OBSOLETE_MATH_DEFAULT

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The new math uses doubles internally for float functions (eg sinf()).
This pulls in double arithmetic code increasing flash usage by ~3k at my project.

Would you mind making this an configuration option?

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I didn't look at the math code closely enough to understand all of the differences that this option controlled.

I've fixed a bug in the code used by __OBSOLETE_MATH in sf_log1p.c so that it doesn't pull in double precision __math_divzero and __math_invalid functions.

Then, I reverted the __OBSOLETE_MATH_DEFAULT value back to 1.

Finally, I added a new configuration option 'newlib-obsolete-math', which you can set to 'true' to force
obsolete math, or leave at 'auto', which will use the default value of 1.

I've tested by linking essentially every math function into an application and verifying that no double precision routines were linked. That, sadly, also requires removing floating point printf support as that can only use doubles due to C calling convention. So, anything printing double values will still haul in all of the double math functions.

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