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Re: Does/will gcc support REAL(16) in Fortran?
- From: Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Jim Wilson <wilson at specifixinc dot com>, "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 22:23:04 +0000
- Subject: Re: Does/will gcc support REAL(16) in Fortran?
- Organization: CodeSourcery
- References: <20040109000322.GA28363@lucon.org> <3FFF1DC1.7010102@specifixinc.com>
On Friday 09 January 2004 9:31 pm, Jim Wilson wrote:
> There is also the issue of adding fortran front end support to accept
> these declarations. I can't comment on how much work that is.
Adding long double support to gfortran should be fairly easy, given gcc
backend and libc support.
However the types available in gfortran are hardcoded. They should really be
based on what types are available on a partcular target, especially when we
add anything than than the widely supported IEEE single and double precision
types.
As has been mentioned elsewhere, volunteers and patches are more than
welcome:)
Paul