64 bit long double on i386 arch.

[Markus Duft]

On 09/09/11 22:52, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Markus Duft <markus.duft@salomon.at> writes:
> 
>> 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!
> 
> I would expect that to work.  What fails?

Hm. i checked only xgcc somewhere half way down the bootstrap, and my test program (sizeof(long double)) still yielded 12, so i assumed it doesn't work. i checked a little closer, and it seems that (hah!) the final gcc does have 8 byte long doubles...

Thanks! Sorry for the noise ;)

regards, markus

> 
> Ian