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Re: Irix6 long doubles implemented wrong? (27_io/ostream_inserter_arith)
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org, oldham at codesourcery dot com, ro at TechFak dot Uni-Bielefeld dot DE, rth at redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:14:07 -0500
- Subject: Re: Irix6 long doubles implemented wrong? (27_io/ostream_inserter_arith)
>>>>> Alexandre Oliva writes:
Alex> Eeek. Why Fortran? Can't they be implemented in C using pairs of
Alex> doubles, or at least unions? On IRIX, they definitely can. Is there
Alex> any weirdness in the way AIX/ppc passes arguments that prevents this?
Alex> Are they significantly different from what I described in pseudo-C?
Because Fortran generally produces higher performance code and the
algorithm is most efficiently implemented as operations on complex types,
again, more common in Fortran.
David