When was decimal floating point added to gcc?

[H. J. Lu]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 01:23:16PM -0700, Janis Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 02:41:57PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> > On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, Ben Elliston wrote:
> > >> Are they mentioned in any gcc changes.html?
> > > No, they're not.  They probably should be.
> > 
> > Do you think we could talk the submitters/maintainers into donating a 
> > patch? :-)
> 
> Support for the decimal floating point C extension could be mentioned
> in the release notes for GCC 4.2, but there it's only supported for
> powerpc*-linux and x86*-linux and only if requested at configure time.
> The ABI for powerpc*-linux has changed since then, and the
> representation will (has?) changed for x86*-linux.  Is this worth
> documenting for 4.2?

DFP doesn't really work for x86*-linux unitl Uros fixed a bunch
of back-end/middle-end bugs in 4.3.


H.J.