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Re: PATCH: Enable TFmode for SSE2

H.J. Lu wrote:

Enable __float128 tests for x86 will lead to failures on ia32
since 128bit soft-fp isn't ported to x86. Last time when I tried,
it didn't work. Given that we may have another implementation
of __float128 optimized for x86 and x86-64, I don't know if I
should spend time on porting 128bit soft-fp to x86.
Well, soft-fp implementation in gcc has all the required features (exceptions, rounding modes, denormals) and is one of the fastest implementations of software FP [1]. Since it is shared with glibc soft-FP, it also passes tests from glibc.

[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Software_floating_point

Uros.

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