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Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Move around math-related Implies
"Gabriel F. T. Gomes" <gabriel@inconstante.eti.br> writes:
> On Fri, 11 May 2018, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho wrote:
>
>>Currently, powerpc, powerpc64, and powerpc64le imply the same set of
>>subdirectories from sysdeps/ieee754: flt-32, dbl-64, ldbl-128ibm, and
>>ldbl-opt. In preparation for the transition of the long double format -
>>from IBM Extended Precision to IEEE 754 128-bits floating-point - on
>>powerpc64le, this patch splits the shared Implies file into three
>>separate files (one for each of the powerpc architectures), without
>>changing their contents. Future patches will modify powerpc64le.
>>
>>2018-05-11 Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
>> Gabriel F. T. Gomes <gabriel@inconstante.eti.br>
>>
>> * sysdeps/powerpc/Implies: Removed. Previous contents copied to...
>> * sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/Implies-after: ... here.
>> * sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/be/Implies-after: ... here.
>> * sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/le/Implies-before: ... and here.
>
> Do we still need to use the "-after" and "-before" mechanism after this
> change?
Yes. Without them the sysdeps order would be different.
--
Tulio Magno