*ping* [patch, wwwdocs] Mention POWER IEEE128 changes for gcc 12
Thomas Koenig
tkoenig@netcologne.de
Sat Apr 30 21:56:55 GMT 2022
Hi Mikael,
> OK in any case. Anything is better than nothing.
Here is what I committed, with one final tweak.
Thanks!
Best regards
Thomas
--- a/htdocs/gcc-12/changes.html
+++ b/htdocs/gcc-12/changes.html
@@ -501,6 +501,15 @@ function Multiply (S1, S2 : Sign) return Sign is
conforming to the Fortran 2018 standard. Previous versions
used <code>OPERATOR</code> which conforms to TS 18508.
</li>
+ <li>
+ On POWER systems which support it, the
<code>-mabi=ieeelongdouble</code>
+ option now selects the IEEE 128-bit floating point format
+ for <code>REAL(KIND=16)</code>.
+ <code>R16_IBM</code> and <code>R16_IEEE</code> have been added to the
+ <code>-fconvert</code> option, the <code>CONVERT</code> specifyer of
+ the <code>OPEN</code> statement and the
<code>GFORTRAN_CONVERT_UNIT</code>
+ environment variable.
+ </li>
</ul>
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