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Re: rs6000 PPC32 SVR4 ABI long double function return bug
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:05:39AM -0800, Aldy Hernandez wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 01:55:02PM -0500, David Edelsohn wrote:
> > >>>>> Aldy Hernandez writes:
> > Aldy> I am willing to set long doubles to 128 bits on the FSF tree as well
> > Aldy> if y'all think this is a good idea.
> >
> > If you want to set long double to 128 bit for SPE only, that's up
> > to you. As you explained, none of the support functions are provided and
>
> I'm more inclined to leave things as is, mainly because I think
> disabling long doubles is stupid, and because I hate to see hundreds
> of gcc.c-torture failures.
I agree. Conformance to the C standard is IMHO more important
than conformance to the PPC32 SVR4 ABI. The C standard requires
C implementations to support `long double'.
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