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Re: [PATCH], PowerPC IEEE 128-bit patch #7 (revised #2), Subpatch #09
- From: Michael Meissner <meissner at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Michael Meissner <meissner at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, dje dot gcc at gmail dot com
- Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:22:35 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH], PowerPC IEEE 128-bit patch #7 (revised #2), Subpatch #09
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On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 08:05:58PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Michael Meissner wrote:
>
> > This patch is the new patch from the last submission. It sets up a hook so that
> > the compiler will not allow IBM extended double and IEEE 128-bit floating point
> > to intermix in a binary expression without using an explicit conversion.
>
> I don't see a testcase that this mixing is rejected. And I'd have
> expected you to need a C/C++ front-end patch to cause rejection in
> conditional expressions, which don't seem currently to have such a hook,
> but didn't see that in this series - is it intended for a patch after #7?
I am planning on writing the test cases, but I couldn't write them until all
of the sub-patches for patch #7 are in place.
I am planning on looking at a new hook for ?: next week.
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