RFC [MIPS, RS6000] Mangling of IBM long double template literals

Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Wed Jun 12 18:17:00 GMT 2013


On Thu, 13 Jun 2013, Alan Modra wrote:

> This is of course an ABI change for any existing little-endian users
> of IBM long double literals in templates.  On powerpc, I think we can
> safely say there are no such users.  However it does look like MIPS
> also uses a variant of IBM long double, and I'm less certain there.

That variant was used for IRIX, for which support was removed over a year 
ago.  It would be good to remove the code that I noted in 
<http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-03/msg00819.html> was thereby made 
obsolete.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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