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Re: Powerpc64 long double support
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 01:23:36AM -0500, David Edelsohn wrote:
> The PowerPC changes are okay with me.
>
> Other ports, such as Mips, use the IBM extended format, why not
> just add dconstm0 to standard list in real.h instead of creating a special
> function for rs6000 port?
I did consider doing that. Note that using rs6000_dfmode_m0 costs just
one function call, whereas dconstm0 needs to be converted to double via
const_double_from_real_value, lookup_const_double, htab_find_slot. I
thought I'd be pushing my luck to ask for a dfmode_m0_rtx in
emit-rtl.c.
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Alan Modra
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