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Re: ia64 XFmode patch rides again (need ia64-linux testing)

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 04:42:06PM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> I have no preference at present.  You can look in
> ia64.c:ia64_hpux_init_libfuncs (IIRC) for the HP-UX names.  Note that
> GCC's floating point emulation library does not support IEEE quad, so
> the question is moot until that gets resolved.  (Or does x86-64
> support this in hardware?)

soft-fp in glibc does support it.
The question is if AMD64 will define a new set of libm functions
(with a different suffix than l used for long double) or just stay with
the minimal set for basic arithmetic operations.

	Jakub
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