PowerPC64 long double

[Steve Munroe]

Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> wrote on 02/21/2005 10:25:25 PM:

> On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 05:49:43PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > Alan Modra wrote:
> > >Needed for compiling with -mlong-double-128 on powerpc64-linux
> > 
> > Is this the only change needed?
> 
> Probably not.  This particular change merely fixes an obvious
> compile-time error.  Steve can no doubt answer better as to how much
> long double support is missing.
> 
> Steve/Dwayne, I'd like to enable -mlong-double-128 by default for
> powerpc64-linux in gcc-4.0.  ...
> 
Our work is well along and ready to submitt, but we are waiting on the 
acceptance of Jakub's "long double IEEE double -> quad switch" patch 
<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2004-07/msg00026.html> or 
something like it. And I think Jukub is wating on Ulrich's acceptance of 
such a patch.
Seems like the transition to gcc-4.0/glibc-2.4 is a good time to introduce 
such a change?

Steven J. Munroe
Linux on Power Toolchain Architect
IBM Corporation, Linux Technology Center