[fortran,patch] Complete front-end support for __float128

[Toon Moene]

Richard Guenther wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 5:18 PM, FX <fxcoudert@gmail.com> wrote:

>>> Why do you need a flag at all?  Simply support real(kind=16).

>> Oh, and last but not least: I don't know how the quad-math library will turn up being licensed/distributed, but we probably should only link it in when necessary, shouldn't we?
> 
> Well, let's see how that part of intergation will turn out.

Yep, that's my responsibility ;-) I hope to find some time Saturday (in 
spite of the fact that this technically still my summer holiday, I have 
very little time now).

> For example
> if there are different math libraries the user will be responsible for
> adding -lFOO, similar to how -lm is necessary.

Ah, but users of gfortran never specify -lm - it's handled by the 
compiler driver (I think there are not that many Fortran programs in the 
wild that would successfully link without -lm :-)

CHeers,

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