From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: GDB/libiberty support for IBM long double
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710261450080.24782@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710260753.l9Q7rAvq014149@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl>
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> Hmm, can't we have a somewhat better (more general) name than
> floatformats_ibm_long_double (especially since it is no exclusively
> used for IBM hardware).
IBM long double is the name used in the GCC ABI option
(-mabi=ibmlongdouble) and in the taxonomy in use by the Power ABI working
group (ATR-LONG-DOUBLE-IBM). The alternative I've seen is "double double"
but that looks rather like a typo.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-26 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-26 3:03 Joseph S. Myers
2007-10-26 3:04 ` DJ Delorie
2007-10-27 23:12 ` Joseph S. Myers
2007-11-07 22:43 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-11-07 23:26 ` DJ Delorie
2007-11-09 1:26 ` Ulrich Weigand
2007-11-13 6:48 ` Joseph S. Myers
2007-11-13 14:35 ` Ulrich Weigand
2007-11-13 15:42 ` Joseph S. Myers
2007-11-13 15:58 ` DJ Delorie
2007-11-13 20:06 ` Ulrich Weigand
2007-10-26 9:25 ` Mark Kettenis
2007-10-26 15:43 ` Joseph S. Myers [this message]
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