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Re: [RFC PATCH] Optionally use -mlong-double-128 by default on {powerpc{,64},s390{,x},sparc,alpha}-linux



On 2006-01-27, at 18:21, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

done together). If the changes aren't done in GCC 4.1 (here I'm talking
mainly about the -mlong-double-128 support, not about the switch to it
by default), then there won't be any released compiler that will be able to
compile glibc 2.4 on ppc32, s390, s390x, alpha nor sparc.
glibc decided to do the long double switchover about a month ago
and glibc 2.4 release is planned within next month or so.

As a solution I would propose to amend the compiler release with
a release of a separate patch precisely for this purpose. This would
be good service to people concerned with only updating the compiler and not
the whole system in one go as well.



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