https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59666
Sergey Fedorov <vital.had at gmail dot com> changed:
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--- Comment #8 from Sergey Fedorov <vital.had at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to Vincent Lefèvre from comment #1)
> (In reply to Joseph S. Myers from comment #0)
> It seems to be like that "by design" (though this is not satisfactory) and
> part of the ppc64 ABI for instance:
>
> http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/ELF/ppc64/PPC-elf64abi.html#PREC
>
> "The software support is restricted to round-to-nearest mode. Programs that
> use extended precision must ensure that this rounding mode is in effect when
> extended-precision calculations are performed."
Also true for AIX:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/sr/xcafbg/9.0.0?topic=SS3KZ4_9.0.0/com.ibm.xlf111.bg.doc/xlfopg/fp-overview.html
Does anyone know whether this is also true for Darwin on PowerPC though?
