[PATCH] x86: Don't pad .tfloat output
Andreas Schwab
schwab@linux-m68k.org
Mon Aug 16 08:17:13 GMT 2021
On Aug 16 2021, Jan Beulich via Binutils wrote:
> This leaves users without any ABI-conforming way to produce double
> extended precision values, short of hand-coding the padding.
If you want to use the C ABI, you should use a C compiler. On the
assembler level, double extended precision have 10 bytes, which is what
the FPU reads and writes. The manual clearly documents .tfloat as
producing 80-bit (ten byte) reals.
Andreas.
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