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RE: FWD: FLOATING-POINT CONSISTENCY, -FFLOAT-STORE, AND X86
- To: tprince at cat dot e-mail dot com
- Subject: RE: FWD: FLOATING-POINT CONSISTENCY, -FFLOAT-STORE, AND X86
- From: Stephen L Moshier <moshier at mediaone dot net>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 18:14:53 -0500 (EST)
- cc: bosch at gnat dot com, egcs at cygnus dot com, hjstein at bfr dot co dot il
- Reply-To: moshier at mediaone dot net
> I
> suggest we try patching gcc to force programs to start in 64-bit
> mode and otherwise not worry about it ("set once and forget") as
> you've been proposing.<<
The compiler may continue to generate some XFmode insns, so you should
check your programs and libgcc.a for them. By design it is supposed to be
possible to create a GCC that never generates XFmode, but there may
still be a breakage in i386.md that doesn't quite allow it.