[RFC PATCH] Optionally use -mlong-double-128 by default on {powerpc{,64},s390{,x},sparc,alpha}-linux

[Marcin Dalecki]

On 2006-01-27, at 18:21, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>
> done together).  If the changes aren't done in GCC 4.1 (here I'm  
> talking
> mainly about the -mlong-double-128 support, not about the switch to it
> by default), then there won't be any released compiler that will be  
> able to
> compile glibc 2.4 on ppc32, s390, s390x, alpha nor sparc.
> glibc decided to do the long double switchover about a month ago
> and glibc 2.4 release is planned within next month or so.

As a solution I would propose to amend the compiler release with
a release of a separate patch precisely for this purpose. This would
be good service to people concerned with only updating the compiler  
and not
the whole system in one go as well.