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Re: Effects of newly introduced -mpcX 80387 precision flag


On 5/4/07, Vincent Lefevre <vincent+gcc@vinc17.org> wrote:
Perhaps it should be noted that these libraries are specific to x86
processors, since other processors don't have extended precision.

m68k does too, just nobody uses it any more or the ones they use don't have the co-processor or have a different FP instructions now. In fact this where the problem started, i387 just continued in the same fashion.

-- Pinski


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