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Re: enable maximum integer type to be 128 bits
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk>
- To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich at novell dot com>
- Cc: zack at codesourcery dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 09:13:47 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: enable maximum integer type to be 128 bits
- References: <s0ebaf1d.066@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com>
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Jan Beulich wrote:
> the compiler being able support this (which is why I made this a
> configure option rather than something each target would have to
> introduce by itself, allowing this to be easily turned own for
> experimenting). Of course, I'd like to learn what alternatives you
> see...
ABI-changing options to vary the size of long double on x86 have been
implemented as -m options to the compiler rather than configure options.
Naturally implementing and documenting such an option, with similar
warnings about ABI changes, makes experimentation more convenient than a
configure-time option.
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