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Re: When was decimal floating point added to gcc?

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, H. J. Lu wrote:
>> Support for the decimal floating point C extension could be mentioned
>> in the release notes for GCC 4.2, but there it's only supported for
>> powerpc*-linux and x86*-linux and only if requested at configure time.
>> The ABI for powerpc*-linux has changed since then, and the
>> representation will (has?) changed for x86*-linux.  Is this worth
>> documenting for 4.2?
> DFP doesn't really work for x86*-linux unitl Uros fixed a bunch
> of back-end/middle-end bugs in 4.3.

In that case it's probably not that good of a idea to promote it (unless
the maintainers are in favor, of course ;-).

Gerald
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