Excess precision and _Float16

[Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 08:50:22AM +0200, Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus via Gcc wrote:
[...]
> My understanding is that for
> -fexcess-precision=16 it is sound having targetm.c.excess_precision
> (EXCESS_PRECISION_TYPE_FLOAT16) returning
> FLT_EVAL_METHOD_PROMOTE_TO_FLOAT---which would align with the default
> implementation---or FLT_EVAL_METHOD_PROMOTE_TO_FLOAT16 but I might be
> wrong here.

To clarify: this statement stems from the fact that with and without
-fexcess-precision=16, FLT_EVAL_METHOD equals zero.