From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Craig Burley To: pcg@goof.com Cc: burley@gnu.org Subject: Re: FWD: FLOATING-POINT CONSISTENCY, -FFLOAT-STORE, AND X86 Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 00:27:00 -0000 Message-id: <199812190826.DAA16422@melange.gnu.org> References: <19981217235340.O5893@cerebro.laendle> X-SW-Source: 1998-12/msg00752.html >On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 01:21:52PM -0500, Craig Burley wrote: >> >The choice is clear, at least for me. I'm setting the FPU to 64 bit >> >mode in all my code. Maybe I'll even put it in crt0.o. >> >> Yup. We should do this (whichever gives the most coverage) across >> the board in enough egcs snapshots to find out how it actually >> affects people, e.g. how much other code must be rewritten. > >Will we warn for "long double"? ;->>> I don't even know for sure if it'd stop working in 64-bit-mode FPU. If it does, those who proposed that mode as "the" solution to the problems with FP behavior will surely suggest something. tq vm, (burley)