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Re: Minimum floating-point requirements
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Steve Munroe <sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com>, Adhemerval Zanella <azanella at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:58:03 +0000
- Subject: Re: Minimum floating-point requirements
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On Mon, 10 Feb 2014, David Edelsohn wrote:
> So the proposal is that it is not the default, but it will be the
> default for all practical purposes. This effectively is a proposal to
The default for calls from glibc (much like Alpha and SH also use -mieee
for building glibc, in line with the general expectations of glibc code
about the underlying arithmetic), not for calls from user code.
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Joseph S. Myers
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