[PATCH] gfortran -- Map REAL128 to REAL kind type with widest precision

[Steve Kargl]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 05:00:26PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 04:52:09PM -0800, Jerry DeLisle wrote:
> > 
> > gcc112 is a power8 machine.
> > 
> > $ gfc -static -mfloat128 -mcpu=power8 foo.f90
> > $ ./a.out
> > 16 106 31
> > 
> > $ gfc -static -mfloat128 -mabi=ieeelongdouble foo.f90
> > gfc: warning: using IEEE extended precision long double
> > f951: Warning: using IEEE extended precision long double
> > $ ./a.out
> > 16 113 33
> > 
> 
> The warning looks strange.  You've clearly asked the 
> compiler to use IEEE 754, so why warn?  Seems like a
> bug.

I forgot to say "Thanks for checking what powerpc does."

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Steve
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