Re: RFC: Enabling fixed point modes on x86

2019-09-30 Thread Joseph Myers
On Mon, 30 Sep 2019, Martin Ling wrote: > For starters, by doing this I have implicitly invented an ABI for fixed > point types on x86 (they get passed exactly like correspondingly-sized > integers, I suppose). This ABI would be unique to gcc. > > I have also implicitly set the numbers of integra

RFC: Enabling fixed point modes on x86

2019-09-30 Thread Martin Ling
Hi all, new to the list. Attached is a very short patch which enables the use of fixed point modes on x86 targets. I first created this a couple of years ago for gcc 7 and have just updated it for current git master. I have not sent this to the patches list as I do not expect it to be anywhere ne