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Re: [RFC] Add FMA support to sparc backend
> There have never been TFmode float operations implemented in hardware
> ever for sparc, and I doubt we'll see it in the future.
>
> And this applies also to the FMA instructions.
Do the specs totally disregard quad floats for FMA or...?
> And especially since the presence of the FMA patterns is meant to be a
> performance enhancement, I don't see much value to considering TFmode
> cases.
>
> Did you have something specific in mind?
No, this was purely for my own education. :-) Maybe a comment explaining the
situation/(non-)implementation choice wrt TFmode would be in order.
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Eric Botcazou