I forgot to add:
I have tested this patch on the following systems and there was no degration.
Can I check it into the trunk branch?
* Power10, LE, --with-cpu=power10, IBM 128-bit long double
* Power9, LE, --with-cpu=power9, IBM 128-bit long double
* Power9, LE, --with-cpu=power9, IEEE 128-bit long double
* Power9, LE, --with-cpu=power9, 64-bit default long double
* Power9, BE, --with-cpu=power9, IBM 128-bit long double
* Power8, BE, --with-cpu=power8, IBM 128-bit long double
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Michael Meissner, IBM
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