From: Jim Wilson <wilson@specifixinc.com>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm@polyomino.org.uk>
Cc: Kean Johnston <jkj@sco.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Promoting floats to doubles?
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 20:44:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1083703482.1063.5.camel@leaf.tuliptree.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0405041836170.9469@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 11:52, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> It's a defect in the back-end interface that the front end has a call to
> such a target hook at all.
I think this is more likely a C compiler issue than an ABI issue. If
only the C compiler promotes float to double, then the conversion has to
happen in the C front end. This is the case with the old K&R C
requirement of promoting floats to doubles, which was implemented in the
C front end.
It would be good to check this though. If the SCO compiler supports
Fortran, Java, Ada, or C++, check to see if any of the other languages
need this conversion. My expectation is that they do not.
--
Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-04 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-02 6:32 Kean Johnston
2004-05-03 20:39 ` Jim Wilson
2004-05-04 1:25 ` Kean Johnston
2004-05-04 4:00 ` Jim Wilson
2004-05-04 17:45 ` Kean Johnston
2004-05-04 18:52 ` Joseph S. Myers
2004-05-04 20:44 ` Jim Wilson [this message]
2004-05-05 0:06 ` Kean Johnston
2004-05-05 2:18 ` Jim Wilson
2004-05-05 7:10 ` Jim Wilson
2004-05-05 9:10 ` Kean Johnston
2004-05-05 22:47 ` Jim Wilson
2004-05-05 23:48 ` Kean Johnston
2004-05-04 20:52 ` Jim Wilson
2004-05-05 0:14 ` Kean Johnston
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