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Re: [PATCH] Add PowerPC configuration option --with-long-double-format={ibm,ieee}
- From: Michael Meissner <meissner at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Michael Meissner <meissner at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, 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: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:28:37 -0500
- 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> <alpine.DEB.2.20.1801102346170.29070@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 11:48:30PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> 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?
Yes, I'll try to come up with documentation for it next week if I don't get to
it today (I'll be out the next 4 days).
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Michael Meissner, IBM
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