From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] long double
Date: 17 Jan 2002 16:42:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m36660a3qx.fsf@myware.mynet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020118003542.F9221@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> writes:
> (3) Change both gcc and glibc to think that long double is actually
> 128-bits wide.
This is definitely what you should do. glibc includes now a full set
of 128-bit math functions. They should be used everywhere the ABI are
not demanding the braindamaged 96-bit format. Even Alpha, PPC, etc
will change to this when time comes.
> This is almost certainly going to break some packages, and the
> kernel FP support may have to be enhanced to emulate some of the
> opcodes.
Not necessarily. Look at soft-fp support in glibc.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-18 0:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-18 0:35 [parisc-linux] long double Matthew Wilcox
2002-01-18 0:42 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2002-01-18 1:13 ` Stan Sieler
2002-01-18 3:20 ` John David Anglin
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