Patch [0/3] for PR target/107299 (GCC does not build on PowerPC when long double is IEEE 128-bit)

Segher Boessenkool segher@kernel.crashing.org
Tue Dec 6 14:56:09 GMT 2022


Hi!

On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 10:39:04PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
> The basic issue is internally within GCC there are several types for 128-bit
> floating point.  The types are:
> 
>     1)	The long double type (TFmode or possibly DFmode).

Please be very careful to call types types and modes modes?  Modes are
not types, types are not modes, only in the simplest cases is there a
direct relationship.  Here you probably meant these modes are used for
these type, but please be explicit.

> 	In the past, _Float128 was a C extended type,
> 	but now it is a part of the C/C++ 2x standards.

Only if you select a new enough -std=, it still is an extended type if
not?


Segher


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