Bug#895452: gcc-7: libquadmath is disabled for gcc 7.3.0 on powerpc64-linux-gnu

2018-04-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
Package: gcc-7 Version: 7.3.0-15 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Attempt to compile a trivial code test that uses #include as well as _Float128 datatype and quadmath_snprintf() call fails with fatal error: quadmath.h: No such file or directory *

Bug#895452: gcc-7: libquadmath is disabled for gcc 7.3.0 on powerpc64-linux-gnu

2018-04-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 11/04/18 04:52 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: On 11.04.2018 19:04, Dennis Clarke wrote: Package: gcc-7 Version: 7.3.0-15 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Attempt to compile a trivial code test that uses #include as well as _Float128 datatype

Bug#895452: libquadmath and quadmath.h do not exist on ppc64

2018-04-18 Thread Dennis Clarke
New GCC bigid is being flipped around by Jakub Jelinek ( Red Hat ) who claims this issue is fixed for ppc64 in GCC version 8 that does not exist anywhere. Not even in the git repo. I am trying to figure out what is going on here. see https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82686 see

Bug#895452: libquadmath and quadmath.h do not exist on ppc64

2018-04-18 Thread Dennis Clarke
I will test gcc-8-20180415 and see what results I get.

Bug#895452: some progress bootstrap completes for gcc 7.3.0

2018-04-16 Thread Dennis Clarke
Managed a bootstrap that didn't blow up. At the moment the assembly output from a trivial test shows that the IBM extended precision long double type is the default unless one actually asks for the IEEE754-2008 128-bit datatype. dclarke@nix:~/pgm/C/ieee754$