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Re: RFC [MIPS, RS6000] Mangling of IBM long double template literals


"Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2013, Alan Modra wrote:
>> This is of course an ABI change for any existing little-endian users
>> of IBM long double literals in templates.  On powerpc, I think we can
>> safely say there are no such users.  However it does look like MIPS
>> also uses a variant of IBM long double, and I'm less certain there.
>
> That variant was used for IRIX, for which support was removed over a year 
> ago.  It would be good to remove the code that I noted in 
> <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-03/msg00819.html> was thereby made 
> obsolete.

OK, I'll try to do that sometime.  And as far as this change goes,
IRIX was big-endian only anyway, so it wouldn't have been affected.
Thanks Alan for checking though.

Richard


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