64 bit long double on i386 arch.

[Bob Plantz]

On 9/9/2011 12:42 AM, Markus Duft wrote:
> Hey!
>
> I have an existing port of gcc 4.2.4 to interix (having troubles to bring the port to a more current version). Now i just stumbled over the target libc's long double being 64bit only. My question now is: is there some easy way of forcing gcc to use 64 for long double, just like for double? it may well be a hack as the patch is quite specific for now anyway.
>
> i tried to #define LONG_DOUBLE_TYPE_SIZE 64, but after some inspection of the code, i realized that this wont work. is there some magic location where i could just tell gcc to handle long double like double? any help would be much appreciated!
>
> regards, markus
Is there an error in your post? You're saying that a long double is 
"64bit only," and you wish to force "gcc to use 64 for long double."

--Bob