> Am 19.12.2021 um 09:45 schrieb Sven Barth via fpc-devel > <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org>: > > Ben Grasset via fpc-devel <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org > <mailto:fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org>> schrieb am So., 19. Dez. 2021, 08:33: > To be very clear, to me, this is absolutely nothing more than just a matter > of building the compiler completely normally. It takes like two minutes > all-in. I don't really get why the person who uploads the 32-bit Windows > builds currently doesn't just also upload 64-bit ones. They could even just > use the native 64-bit builds Lazarus already includes. Anyways, yeah. I'd > like to actually make this happen, next time around. > > There is already a combined 32-/64-bit download available since 3.2.2. We > *won't* provide a pure, native 64-bit download for Win64, because the > x86_64-win64 is not suitable for other x86_64 targets or for compiling a i386 > or i8064 cross compiler due to the missing Extended support. Until FPC > provides the necessary code to emulate 80-bit floating point we simply avoid > this potential headache by not providing it.
And the main obstacle for 80 bit softfloat support are the library routines (log, exp etc.). > As this has been discussed ad nauseam already, this decision is not up for > discussion. > > Regards, > Sven > _______________________________________________ > fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org > https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
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