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Re: Effects of newly introduced -mpcX 80387 precision flag


Hi,

On Fri, 4 May 2007, Andrew Pinski wrote:

> On 5/4/07, Vincent Lefevre <vincent+gcc@vinc17.org> wrote:
> > Perhaps it should be noted that these libraries are specific to x86
> > processors, since other processors don't have extended precision.
> 
> m68k does too, just nobody uses it any more or the ones they use don't
> have the co-processor or have a different FP instructions now.  In
> fact this where the problem started, i387 just continued in the same
> fashion.

Huh? m68k still uses extended precisions and will continue to do so, it's 
ColdFire that doesn't have it anymore.

bye, Roman


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