[pypy-dev] Re: [pypy-svn] r16070 - pypy/dist/pypy/objspace/std

[Eric van Riet Paap]

Armin Rigo wrote:

>Hi Eric,
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>On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:54:01AM +0200, Eric van Riet Paap wrote:
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>>But why then did I get a call to ll_math_log10(int 2) in the backend?
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>Ah, oups.  Correction: math.log10 is supposed to be allowed at
>interp-level.  I see that we use it to implement the app-level
>math.log10().  If I remember the reasoning correctly, there was no point
>in trying not to use log10() at interp-level because back-ends typically
>provide this function directly (e.g. C has it in math.h).
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>So actually it's expected that you get ll_math_log10 in LLVM...
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Yes, and therefor the invocation needs to be math.log10(double).
Or probably better would be that pypy not marks math.log10 as a
primitive function,
but math.log10(double) and provide the correct cast from int to double?!?

Eric


>
>Sorry for the confusion,
>
>Armin
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