On Fri, 21 Jul 2017, Michael Meissner wrote:
> The first change is to enable the C language to use _Float128 keyword (but not
> __float128) without having to use the -mfloat128 option on power7-power9
> systems. My question is in the TR that introduced _Float128, is there any
> expectation that
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 03:17:57PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
> The first change is to enable the C language to use _Float128 keyword (but not
> __float128) without having to use the -mfloat128 option on power7-power9
> systems. My question is in the TR that introduced _Float128, is there any
This patch makes some changes to the way the PowerPC handles IEEE 128-bit
floating point, and I wanted to point out where I would like to change the
compiler, but be open to doing it in other ways.
There are 3 changes in this patch, and presumably more work to do beyond this
patch.
The first
