I'm going to try and summarize the current state of 128-bit floating point on
the PowerPC here.
There are 2 switches that control long double support in the compiler, but
without supporting libraries, it isn't useful to users:
-mabi=ieeelongdouble vs. -mabi=ibmlongdouble:
These switches control which 128-bit format to use. If you use either
switch, you get two warning messages (one from the gcc drive, one from
the compiler proper).
-mlong-double-128 vs. -mlong-double 64
These switches control whether long double is 128-bits (either ibm/ieee
formats), or 64-bits.
AIX and Darwin hardwires the choice to -mabi=ibmlongdouble, and you cannot use
the switch to override things. Linux and Freebsd set the default to
-mabi=ibmlongdouble. Any PowerPC system that is not AIX, Darwin, Linux, nor
Freebsd appears to default to IEEE 128-bit (vxworks?).
In terms of places where TFmode is mentioned in GCC, it is the following files:
predicates.md, rs6000.c, rs6000.h, rs6000.md, rs6000-modes.def, spe.md
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