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Re: vax vs real_arithmetic
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- Cc: John David Anglin <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>, <dave dot anglin at nrc dot ca>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:43:52 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: vax vs real_arithmetic
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:36:57PM -0500, John David Anglin wrote:
> > I have find the term "REAL_ARITHMETIC" to be confusing. Why not
> > "EMULATE_REAL_ARITHMETIC"?
>
> No idea. It's been that way forever.
>
> At some point I'd love to rewrite real.c so that it isn't quite
> so full of ifdef hackery, and at that point remove the option of
> using native floating-point operations.
What targets currently don't support floating point emulation when
cross-compiling?
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk