https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19779

--- Comment #9 from Iain Sandoe <iains at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Andrew Pinski from comment #8)
> (In reply to Sergey Fedorov from comment #6)
> > (In reply to Andrew Pinski from comment #0)
> > > This is the new bug for PR 19405. Keeping track of that we no longer
> > > constant fold long doubles in the 
> > > IBM 128bit long double format.
> > 
> > What is the current status of the issue?
> 
> Nothing has changed here that much. Though powerpc64 le is heading towards
> doing IEEE 128bit FP by default so this might be much much less of an issue
> for most people which means this is more likely never get fixed.

it occasionally causes grief, but so far there's been a work-around; I guess if
someone really wanted to make a patch - they'd have to use MPFR et. al. to do
the work.

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