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Re: Status of long-double-128 soft-fp for powerpc32


Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Steven Munroe wrote:
>  
>>I opened a glibc bugzilla
>><http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2749> to track
>>progress on this topic. This bugzilla contains patches which to libc,
>>ports, and gcc which allow powerpc32 to configure --without-fp and
>>-mlong-double-128, make and make check. A number of make check failures
>>remain to be resolved.
>>
>>Hopefully this will allow interrested parties to build gcc-4.1/glibc-2.4
>>soft-fp for themselves and pitch in with the debugging that remains :)
>>    
>
>I think we should get the patches to ports and GCC checked in more or less 
>as is, as being clearly an improvement on the present situation even 
>though more work is needed.
>  
I'll submit the ports patch and ask David to submit the gcc patch
>The libc patch may be more risky; perhaps you could create an fenv_libc.h 
>for powerpc/nofpu in order to reduce the size of patch required?
>
>  
This is a bit tricky because of Ulrich Drepper's concerns stated in
#2423.  So eliminating fenv_libc.h where possible may be a better
solution even if it is a bigger patch.


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