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Re: Do not define -mlong-double-128 on ppc when --without-fp specified?


2006/3/9, Steve Munroe <sjmunroe@us.ibm.com>:

> Because for powerpc --with-fp is the default. soft-fp is just the generic
> implementation. You need code from nofpu to override the default (--with-fp
> enabled) implementation of functions from fenv.h. Before Roland moved the
> nofpu code to ports this was automatic.

Ahh.  Now I'm enlightened!

> Also the nofpu implementation was moved to ports. So you will need > to the ports add-on and at least one patch that has not gone upstream.

According to http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/ports, you're the
subtree maintainer for powerpc. Am I supposed to expect that you'll
commit/check in the mentioned patch?

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