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Re: [PATCH] Add PowerPC configuration option --with-long-double-format={ibm,ieee}
On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 05:35:59PM -0500, Michael Meissner wrote:
> 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?
>
> Here is the first pass at documentation. Segher is this ok?
Sure, thanks! One tiny thing:
> +Specify what format 128-bit @code{long double} should use on PowerPC
> +VSX systems, If you use @code{--with-long-double-format=ibm},
+VSX systems. If you use @code{--with-long-double-format=ibm},
?
Segher