Bug with g77 and -mieee on Alpha Linux

[Dave Love]

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> writes:

 Jeff> Folks, I'm seeing some personal barbs go back and forth.  Can
 Jeff> everyone in this discussion please count to 10 slowly before
 Jeff> sending out the next message?

My lip is already quite bitten, but apologies for the contribution
I've made.  I'm unsubscribing anyhow, belatedly.  I don't feel I
should be getting into fights with steering committee people one way
or another.

 Jeff> On a technical note, while we certainly can not switch the
 Jeff> default to -mieee for this release, we can consider adding an
 Jeff> -mieee multilib to the alpha port for this release (assuming
 Jeff> the libraries will successfully build with -mieee).

Yes, I built multilibbed (on OSF).

 Jeff> While it is not a perfect solution, 

It's perfect as far as the canonical test goes.

 Jeff> it would provide the user with a more IEEE complaint
 Jeff> environment if requested *and* by making it at least an option
 Jeff> with this release -mieee will get more testing.

Someone should document multilibs as not only applicable to libgcc and
look for any other cases where they might be needed for the language
runtimes but weren't for libgcc.