Segher Boessenkool writes:
> You can write
> double convert (__ibm128 x) { return x; }
> double convert (__ieee128 x) { return x; }
> as well. "__ieee128" and "long double" are the same type then (and the
> same as _Float128 and __float128 as well).
Oh! I see. Thanks!
Going back
On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 04:55:42PM -0300, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
wrote:
> Michael Meissner via Gcc writes:
> > Because long double mangles the same as either __float128 or __ibm128, you
> > cannot write programs like:
> >
> > double convert (__ibm128x) { return x; }
> > doub
Michael Meissner via Gcc writes:
> Because long double mangles the same as either __float128 or __ibm128, you
> cannot write programs like:
>
> double convert (__ibm128x) { return x; }
> double convert (__float128 x) { return x; }
> double convert (long double x) { return x
On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 05:44:36PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2022 at 03:53:55PM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 04, 2022 at 01:48:51PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
> > It would be a lot simpler and less roundabout and inside out if we could
> > do this the
On Thu, Aug 04, 2022 at 03:53:55PM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2022 at 01:48:51PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
> > At the moment, GCC 12 on the server PowerPC systems supports multiple
> > 128-bit
> > floating point types:
> >
> > * _Float128 (in the C
Hi!
On Thu, Aug 04, 2022 at 01:48:51PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
> At the moment, GCC 12 on the server PowerPC systems supports multiple 128-bit
> floating point types:
>
> * _Float128 (in the C language): IEEE 128-bit floating point;
>
> * __float128 (in the C and C++ languages): I
This is the same message I sent out before. I'm resending it to include
libc-al...@sourceware.org in the To: list.
Sorry for the scatter shot mail that covers C++, Objective C++, Glibc,
etc. developers, but I wanted to discuss and get buy-in on changes to the
PowerPC GCC compiler that I would lik
