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Re: 80 bit floating point support for i960.
- To: "Vladimir N. Makarov" <vmakarov at cygnus dot com>, egcs-patches at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: 80 bit floating point support for i960.
- From: Stephen L Moshier <moshier at mediaone dot net>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 15:10:01 -0500 (EST)
- Reply-To: moshier at mediaone dot net
> The patch permits 80-bit floating point numbers for i960.
I think it may be impractical to select this at run time (i.e. not worth
the amount of effort it would require). The size of long double is a
compile time constant macro, and the definition of a REAL_VALUE_TYPE
depends on that size. You can build the compiler one way or the other but
not both ways at once.
To permit building either a 96-bit or 128-bit long double version for i960
you would need to check the size in i960_output_long_double.