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Re: [RFA] mips-irix SEGV: long doubles are 128 bits long on IRIX
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 07:34:14PM -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > Ehm; no, I don't think so. I only said N32 and N64, and according to
> > GCC that's all it is. The older ABIs don't have 128-bit long double.
>
> Gotcha, N32 and N64. I thought you confirmed that Embedded N32&N64
> where also 128bit long doubles, but I was mistaken. And I ventured
> that 064 would have better precision long doubles. Oh well.
Embedded n32 and n64 -> mips64-elf -mabi=n32 or -mabi=n64. EABI64 and
N64 have no relation.
> > I think the best thing would be to make this change in mips-tdep; some
> > additional changes for Irix and/or Linux may be necessary to get the
> > format right, though.
>
> Yes. I'll look at this when the most urgent problems are fixed.
>
> The unwinder seems a bit shaky for instance :-(.
Yeah, I've noticed some similar problems on mips64-linux but not had
time to go back to them.
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Daniel Jacobowitz