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Re: Promoting floats to doubles?

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 11:52, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> It's a defect in the back-end interface that the front end has a call to
> such a target hook at all.

I think this is more likely a C compiler issue than an ABI issue.  If
only the C compiler promotes float to double, then the conversion has to
happen in the C front end.  This is the case with the old K&R C
requirement of promoting floats to doubles, which was implemented in the
C front end.

It would be good to check this though.  If the SCO compiler supports
Fortran, Java, Ada, or C++, check to see if any of the other languages
need this conversion.  My expectation is that they do not.
-- 
Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com
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