I would like to understand better why and how this GCC 4.1 requirement for adding 128bit long double support came about. Maybe better understanding how this "mistake" came to happen will better understand why GCC 4.1 will be delayed because of this change?
What I am looking for is the dicussion where glibc decided to move over and to require GCC to move over too. What I can find is mails from July and March of last year for a glibc patch and then an updated one from last month[1] which seems to me to be the catalists for this whole mess but no replies. So is this mess all caused by that one patch and maybe some backroom discussing? And from the looks of it RedHat forcing the hand to move which seems wrong as it means that Redhat is forcing GCC and glibc to do what they want for their distro. Thanks, Andrew Pinski [1] http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2006-01/msg00061.html
