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From: Michael Meissner <meissner@linux.ibm.com>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
	Michael Meissner <meissner@linux.ibm.com>,
	Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>,
	gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rs6000, v3: Fix up __SIZEOF_{FLOAT, IBM}128__ defines [PR99708]
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 15:36:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yiphauk1ZX70RthT@toto.the-meissners.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220309225701.GU614@gate.crashing.org>

On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 04:57:01PM -0600, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 10:10:07PM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 02:57:20PM -0600, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > > But __ibm128 should *always* be supported, so this is a hypothetical
> > > problem.
> > 
> > I bet that will require much more work.  I think for the barely supported
> > (or really unsupported?) case of old sysv IEEE quad
> 
> The "q" library routines are double-double.  On RIOS2 (POWER2) there
> were "quad" instructions that worked on a pair of FP regs, but that was
> handled as a pair of FP regs, and since 2012 we do not support POWER2
> anymore anyway.
> 
> I have no clue if and when the "q_" library routines are used.  The do
> take KFmode params (or TFmode if we use double-double preferably).
> 
> Or are you thinking of something else still?

Probably libquadmath (which we still build).  Libquadmath defines all of the
functions with a 'q' suffix.

-- 
Michael Meissner, IBM
PO Box 98, Ayer, Massachusetts, USA, 01432
email: meissner@linux.ibm.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-03-10 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-05  8:21 [PATCH] rs6000: Fix up __SIZEOF_{FLOAT,IBM}128__ " Jakub Jelinek
2022-03-07 21:37 ` [PATCH] rs6000: Fix up __SIZEOF_{FLOAT, IBM}128__ " Segher Boessenkool
2022-03-09 13:27   ` [PATCH] rs6000, v2: " Jakub Jelinek
2022-03-09 14:00     ` Jonathan Wakely
2022-03-09 18:34     ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-03-09 19:24       ` Jakub Jelinek
2022-03-09 20:57         ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-03-09 21:10           ` [PATCH] rs6000, v3: " Jakub Jelinek
2022-03-09 22:57             ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-03-10  9:35               ` Jakub Jelinek
2022-03-10 10:37                 ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-03-10 20:36               ` Michael Meissner [this message]
2022-03-10 20:44   ` [PATCH] rs6000: Fix up __SIZEOF_{FLOAT,IBM}128__ " Michael Meissner

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