On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 02:36:28PM +0000, James Greenhalgh wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> As subject - update extend.texi to mention availability of _Float16 types
> on ARM and AArch64.
>
> OK?
*ping*
Thanks,
James
> 2016-11-30 James Greenhalgh <james.greenha...@arm.com>
>
> * doc/extend.texi (Floating Types): Document availability of
> _Float16 on ARM/AArch64.
>
> diff --git a/gcc/doc/extend.texi b/gcc/doc/extend.texi
> index d873403..7d3d17a 100644
> --- a/gcc/doc/extend.texi
> +++ b/gcc/doc/extend.texi
> @@ -997,8 +997,10 @@ IEEE binary128 format. The @code{_Float64x} type is
> supported on all
> systems where @code{__float128} is supported. The @code{_Float32}
> type is supported on all systems supporting IEEE binary32; the
> @code{_Float64} and @code{Float32x} types are supported on all systems
> -supporting IEEE binary64. GCC does not currently support
> -@code{_Float16} or @code{_Float128x} on any systems.
> +supporting IEEE binary64. The @code{_Float16} type is supported on AArch64
> +systems by default, and on ARM systems when the IEEE format for 16-bit
> +floating point types is selected with @option{-mfp16-format=ieee}.
> +GCC does not currently support @code{_Float128x} on any systems.
>
> On the PowerPC, @code{__ibm128} provides access to the IBM extended
> double format, and it is intended to be used by the library functions
