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Re: RFC Migrating PowerPC to IEEE 128-bit Floating Point
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Steven Munroe <munroesj at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: "Paul E. Murphy" <murphyp at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich dot Weigand at de dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 20:47:07 +0000
- Subject: Re: RFC Migrating PowerPC to IEEE 128-bit Floating Point
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On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Steven Munroe wrote:
> It is my assumption that we will be working on PPC64LE and ABI V2 to
> start. There is no need to wait for GCC-7.
In that case the key question is whether consensus can be reached for
requiring GCC 6.1 or later (supposing 6.1 has all the required support,
both complex arithmetic and the handful of built-in functions for
__float128 present on other architectures with __float128 support) to
build glibc 2.25 for PPC64LE (without requiring it for other architectures
including big-endian powerpc). I don't know what the views of the PPC64LE
glibc community on such a requirement might be. (If you propose such a
version requirement and no-one objects, then as architecture maintainer
you can take that to be consensus.)
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com