[PATCH] rs6000 long double mangling

Andrew Pinski pinskia@physics.uc.edu
Fri Feb 3 22:29:00 GMT 2006


On Feb 3, 2006, at 5:22 PM, David Edelsohn wrote:

> 	This patch adds the long double mangling to rs6000 port.  I
> believe that we want to do this whenever IBM extended float format is
> used, except on Darwin, whose ABI is not changing.
>
> 	This patch includes changing the mangling on SVR4 when IBM long
> double compatibility is requested.  Because default SVR4 long double 
> ABI
> is not changing and 128 bit long double is not being enabled by 
> default,
> the patch does not change the mangling in that mode.
>
> 	Is this what you expect, Jakub?

> 	* config/rs6000/rs6000.c (rs6000_mangle_fundamental_type): Mangle
> 	IBM extended float format long double as "g".
Doesn't this also change it on powerpc-aix?  Also doesn't the SVR4 ABI
say 128bit long double?

For reference: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-09/msg00365.html

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski



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