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Re: Fix recent SPEC2000/x86-64 ICEs
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> Hi Jan,
> > Roger's patches to add math builtins are not working very well on x86-64
> > where we use TARGET_128BIT_LONG_DOUBLE so we must use TFmode instead.
>
> One quick question. On x86-64 in 128-bit long double mode does the x87
> instruction "fldpi" load an 80-bit or 128-bit approximation to pi? I
> know nothing about AMD64, but it looks like your patch just extends the
> truncated 80-bit value. Its just that this seems a bit odd.
The 128-bit long doubles on x86-64 are just i386 80bit doubles with 48
bits of padding to get loads/stores faster, so everything works as
usual, just you need to use TFmode instead of XFmode everywhere as GCC
does not like idea of mixing multiple extended FP modes.
Honza
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> Roger
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