------- Comment #9 from joseph at codesourcery dot com  2008-06-30 13:39 -------
Subject: Re:  Wrong versioning for __float128

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, hjl dot tools at gmail dot com wrote:

> > > BTW, it turns out that gcc 4.3 has those __float128 functions in libgcc.a.
> > > That means all __float128 functions are linked in as hidden functions.
> > > Changing to @GCC_4.3.0 won't make any differences since the ones in
> > > libgcc_s.so are never used.
> > 
> > They are used if the compiler uses shared libgcc, which is the default for 
> > C++ compilations, for example.
> 
> How many C++ applications use __float128 on Linux/x86-64? There is no
> complete run-time support for it. FWIW, there is no gdb support for
> __float128 either.

They probably aren't used much yet; I was simply answering the "never 
used", as a C++ application built with default options will end up using 
the shared libgcc.


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36669

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