Question about soft-fp

[Ralf Baechle]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 03:28:11PM -0800, Geoff Keating wrote:

> > The MIPS ABI defines:
> > 
> > 	float		32-bit IEEE single precission
> > 	double		64-bit IEEE double precission
> > 	long double	64-bit IEEE double precission
> > 
> > I think having optional higher precission would be nice to have but it would
> > have to be disabled unless explicitly enabled by some special compiler
> > option.
> 
> You could use
> 
> typedef long double really_long_double __attribute__((mode,TFmode));
> 
> or whatever.

Is this supposed to work without any further compiler changes to the
MIPS backend?

  Ralf