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Re: What is wrong with Bugzilla? [Was: Re: GCC and Floating-Point]
- From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent+gcc at vinc17 dot org>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 09:21:34 +0200
- Subject: Re: What is wrong with Bugzilla? [Was: Re: GCC and Floating-Point]
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On 2005-06-01 15:29:37 +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:53:05PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Under the 32-bit version, there's no extended precision.
>
> No. powerpc-linux has 128-bit IEEE soft-float long double.
>
> $ cat > fadd.c <<\EOF
> long double fadd (long double a, long double b) { return a + b; }
> EOF
> $ gcc -m32 -mlong-double-128 -c fadd.c
But that's not the default and you'll have problems when linking with
existing libraries on the machine, that use a 64-bit long double...
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