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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Michael Meissner" <meissner@linux.ibm.com>,
	"Jonathan Wakely" <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>,
	"Joseph Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>,
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Subject: Re: First set of patches to allow changing the long double default were posted:
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 20:30:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201008013053.GI2672@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201008000049.GA12185@ibm-toto.the-meissners.org>

Hi!

On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 08:00:49PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
> I looked into this a bit, and I think we want to keep the current behavior (as
> modified by the patches).  As Joseph says, the _Float<n> types have their own
> types, but may/may not use the same modes as other types.  Obviously if these
> types leak into C++ (i.e. but 85518), then something needs to be done about
> mangling.  But that is a machine independent issue, not a PowerPC issue.

There is DF128_ defined for just this, fwiw.  (See
<https://itanium-cxx-abi.github.io/cxx-abi/abi.html#mangling-builtin>.)

> I did play around with making _Float128 always use KFmode, but it will cause us
> to need other changes.  I can do these changes if needed, but it seems like a
> lot of pointless work.

It would be ideal if we would never have TFmode stuff in the instruction
stream, only IFmode and KFmode.  Hey, I can dream :-)


Segher

      reply	other threads:[~2020-10-08  1:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-07 20:55 Changes to allow PowerPC to change the long double type to use the IEEE 128-bit floating point format Michael Meissner
2020-08-07 21:14 ` PowerPC long double Mangling Michael Meissner
2020-09-09 13:42   ` Jonathan Wakely
2020-09-09 15:36     ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-09 17:06       ` Thomas Koenig
2020-09-09 17:32         ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-09 17:41           ` Jakub Jelinek
2020-09-09 18:49             ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-15  5:37     ` Michael Meissner
2020-09-15  7:09       ` Jakub Jelinek
2020-08-08 13:33 ` Changes to allow PowerPC to change the long double type to use the IEEE 128-bit floating point format Thomas König
2020-08-08 20:17   ` Thomas König
2020-08-10 16:53   ` Michael Meissner
2020-08-15  7:58     ` Thomas König
2020-08-08 13:44 ` H.J. Lu
2020-09-24 21:00 ` First set of patches to allow changing the long double default were posted: Michael Meissner
2020-09-28 16:38   ` Joseph Myers
2020-09-28 21:07     ` Michael Meissner
2020-09-28 21:19       ` Jakub Jelinek
2020-09-28 22:13       ` Joseph Myers
2020-09-29 16:34         ` Jonathan Wakely
2020-09-29 16:53           ` Joseph Myers
2020-10-08  0:00           ` Michael Meissner
2020-10-08  1:30             ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]

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