From: Richard Sandiford <richard.sandiford@arm.com>
To: Christophe Lyon via Gcc-patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Cc: Christophe Lyon <christophe.lyon@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] install.texi: Document --enable-decimal-float for AArch64
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 20:48:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mpt5y9tezuf.fsf@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230418075441.24431-1-christophe.lyon@arm.com> (Christophe Lyon via Gcc-patches's message of "Tue, 18 Apr 2023 09:54:41 +0200")
Christophe Lyon via Gcc-patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org> writes:
> When I committed the patches to enable support for DFP on AArch64, I
> forgot to update the installation documentation.
>
> This patch adds AArch64 as needed (same as i386/x86_64).
>
> OK for trunk and gcc-13?
OK for both, thanks.
Richard
> 2023-04-17 Christophe Lyon <christophe.lyon@arm.com>
>
> gcc/
> * doc/install.texi (enable-decimal-float): Add AArch64.
> ---
> gcc/doc/install.texi | 15 ++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi
> index 15aef1394f4..b13bc122513 100644
> --- a/gcc/doc/install.texi
> +++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi
> @@ -2178,13 +2178,14 @@ forward to maintain the port.
> @itemx --enable-decimal-float=dpd
> @itemx --disable-decimal-float
> Enable (or disable) support for the C decimal floating point extension
> -that is in the IEEE 754-2008 standard. This is enabled by default only
> -on PowerPC, i386, and x86_64 GNU/Linux systems. Other systems may also
> -support it, but require the user to specifically enable it. You can
> -optionally control which decimal floating point format is used (either
> -@samp{bid} or @samp{dpd}). The @samp{bid} (binary integer decimal)
> -format is default on i386 and x86_64 systems, and the @samp{dpd}
> -(densely packed decimal) format is default on PowerPC systems.
> +that is in the IEEE 754-2008 standard. This is enabled by default
> +only on AArch64, PowerPC, i386, and x86_64 GNU/Linux systems. Other
> +systems may also support it, but require the user to specifically
> +enable it. You can optionally control which decimal floating point
> +format is used (either @samp{bid} or @samp{dpd}). The @samp{bid}
> +(binary integer decimal) format is default on AArch64, i386 and x86_64
> +systems, and the @samp{dpd} (densely packed decimal) format is default
> +on PowerPC systems.
>
> @item --enable-fixed-point
> @itemx --disable-fixed-point
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