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Re: ia64 XFmode patch rides again (need ia64-linux testing)
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 04:42:06PM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > I have no preference at present. You can look in
> > ia64.c:ia64_hpux_init_libfuncs (IIRC) for the HP-UX names. Note that
> > GCC's floating point emulation library does not support IEEE quad, so
> > the question is moot until that gets resolved. (Or does x86-64
> > support this in hardware?)
>
> soft-fp in glibc does support it.
What is the name nangling of soft-fp? Does it match the gcc one (*tf
functions we can't use) or does it use something new? (then it would
make more sense to match soft-fp instead of HP-UX I guess)
> The question is if AMD64 will define a new set of libm functions
> (with a different suffix than l used for long double) or just stay with
> the minimal set for basic arithmetic operations.
There is nothing defined right now. Lets proceed step by step. First I
will get float128 working, then we can think about extending the libm.
Thanks,
Honza
>
> Jakub