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Re: New GCC releases comparison and comparison of GCC4.4 and LLVM2.5 on SPEC2000
On 2009-05-25 12:53:49 -0700, Chris Lattner wrote:
> On May 13, 2009, at 5:26 AM, Duncan Sands wrote:
>>> -mpc64 sets the x87 floating point control register to not use the
>>> 80bit extended precision. This causes some x87 floating point
>>> operations to operate faster and there are no issues with the
>>> extra roundings you get when storing an 80bit precision register
>>> to a 64bit memory location.
>
> However, this does break long double, right?
Unless the parameters associated with long double (among LDBL_MANT_DIG,
LDBL_DIG, LDBL_MIN_EXP, LDBL_MIN_10_EXP, LDBL_MAX_EXP, LDBL_MAX_10_EXP,
LDBL_MAX, LDBL_EPSILON, LDBL_MIN) are changed accordingly.
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