New development branch: ia64-fp-model-branch

[Richard Henderson]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 12:14:38AM -0500, Geert Bosch wrote:
> For both systems it makes sense in my opinion to have a notion
> of __fpreg. It is essential that spilling/filling does not
> introduce *any* form of rounding or other observable behavior.
> That optimization levels affect results of numerical algorithms
> is one of the greatest failures of GCC on x86.

If that's all you're concerned about, then you can write
"long double" for x86 and it will do exactly that.


r~