> There have never been TFmode float operations implemented in hardware > ever for sparc, and I doubt we'll see it in the future. > > And this applies also to the FMA instructions.
Do the specs totally disregard quad floats for FMA or...? > And especially since the presence of the FMA patterns is meant to be a > performance enhancement, I don't see much value to considering TFmode > cases. > > Did you have something specific in mind? No, this was purely for my own education. :-) Maybe a comment explaining the situation/(non-)implementation choice wrt TFmode would be in order. -- Eric Botcazou
