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--- Comment #22 from beebe at math dot utah.edu ---
Yesterday, I got a Fedora 36 PPC64LE VM up, and left it installing
hundreds of packages overnight. QEMU 4.2.1 on Ubuntu 20.04 picks a
default CPU type of POWER9. Alas, the ISO installation gets
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--- Comment #19 from beebe at math dot utah.edu ---
Thanks for the further comments on PowerPC, double double as fake long
double, and the news of gcc-12 on Fedora 36 for that CPU. I'll soon
build a VM to get access to that combination. I have V
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--- Comment #17 from beebe at math dot utah.edu ---
>> ... powerpc currently uses what is called double double for 128bit
>> long double. GCC does not know how to constant fold that nicely.
Yes, I know about the double double format that IBM, SGI
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--- Comment #14 from beebe at math dot utah.edu ---
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26374
That is a really old one, from early 2006; I would have hoped that it
had long since been repaired in gcc.
However, I just checked my VM fo
