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Re: Irix6 long doubles implemented wrong? (27_io/ostream_inserter_arith)


On Jan 28, 2003, David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com> wrote:

>>>>>> Alexandre Oliva writes:
Alex> Eeek.  Why Fortran?  Can't they be implemented in C using pairs of
Alex> doubles, or at least unions?  On IRIX, they definitely can.  Is there
Alex> any weirdness in the way AIX/ppc passes arguments that prevents this?

Alex> Are they significantly different from what I described in pseudo-C?

> 	Because Fortran generally produces higher performance code and the
> algorithm is most efficiently implemented as operations on complex types,
> again, more common in Fortran.

So we're going to require Fortran to be enabled in order to build
libgcc with long double support?  I find this disgusting.

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