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Re: [PATCH] Add PowerPC configuration option --with-long-double-format={ibm,ieee}
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Michael Meissner <meissner at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel dot crashing dot org>, David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>, Bill Schmidt <wschmidt at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 23:48:30 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add PowerPC configuration option --with-long-double-format={ibm,ieee}
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- References: <20180110215357.GA2785@ibm-tiger.the-meissners.org>
On Wed, 10 Jan 2018, Michael Meissner wrote:
> This patch is next in my series of patches to enable us to configure the long
> double type on PowerPC systems. This patch is only about the configuration
> option. A future patch will contain the multilib support.
In general we expect configure options to be documented in install.texi.
Is this one being deliberately omitted because it is only actually usable
for toolchain development at present, with various ways in which the
support for IEEE long double is not yet completely functional and library
support is missing - with documentation intended to be added later once
fully functional?
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com