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Re: [PATCH, RFC] Enable IBM long double for PPC32 Linux

> There are 2 kinds of patches.  The ones that add support for optional
> -mlong-double-128 (and add new *tf*/*tc* exported symbols to libgcc{,-s}):

Thanks for explaining.

> As the patches affect symbol versioning of libgcc, it is really desirable
> to have them in GCC 4.1, otherwise which symbol version to use is unclear.

Could you put them on the mainline, using GCC 4.2 as the version number,
and then have GLIBC use that symbol version?  Is it important that this
actually be present in a released GCC?  If so, can you explain why?

> Another thing is the
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2006-01/msg01958.html
> incomplete patch.  I'm NOT proposing this one for GCC 4.1, only for 4.2

OK, good, understood.

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