From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by sourceware.org (Postfix, from userid 2181) id 404EE3858C2C; Thu, 28 Apr 2022 10:29:11 +0000 (GMT) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 sourceware.org 404EE3858C2C MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" From: Jonathan Wakely To: gcc-cvs@gcc.gnu.org Subject: [gcc r12-8300] doc: Remove misleading text about multilibs for IEEE long double X-Act-Checkin: gcc X-Git-Author: Jonathan Wakely X-Git-Refname: refs/heads/master X-Git-Oldrev: f39fcafbc0d2c49593dd8351b87cf43da9227953 X-Git-Newrev: 8094526109034c6c6af44de47612e97319b2c7c5 Message-Id: <20220428102911.404EE3858C2C@sourceware.org> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 10:29:11 +0000 (GMT) X-BeenThere: gcc-cvs@gcc.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Gcc-cvs mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 10:29:11 -0000 https://gcc.gnu.org/g:8094526109034c6c6af44de47612e97319b2c7c5 commit r12-8300-g8094526109034c6c6af44de47612e97319b2c7c5 Author: Jonathan Wakely Date: Thu Apr 28 10:30:58 2022 +0100 doc: Remove misleading text about multilibs for IEEE long double The choice of ieee or ibm long double format is orthogonal to multilibs, as the two sets of symbols co-exist and don't need a separate multilib. gcc/ChangeLog: * doc/install.texi (Configuration): Remove misleading text around LE PowerPC Linux multilibs. Diff: --- gcc/doc/install.texi | 11 ----------- 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi index 3192824bdc4..10bfceffceb 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/install.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi @@ -2139,17 +2139,6 @@ Until all of the libraries are converted to use IEEE 128-bit floating point, it is not recommended to use @option{--with-long-double-format=ieee}. -On little endian PowerPC Linux systems, if you explicitly set the -@code{long double} type, it will build multilibs to allow you to -select either @code{long double} format, unless you disable multilibs -with the @code{--disable-multilib} option. At present, -@code{long double} multilibs are not built on big endian PowerPC Linux -systems. If you are building multilibs, you will need to configure -the compiler using the @option{--with-system-zlib} option. - -If you do not set the @code{long double} type explicitly, no multilibs -will be generated. - @item --enable-fdpic On SH Linux systems, generate ELF FDPIC code.