From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: "Paul E. Murphy via Libc-alpha" <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] powerpc64le: Enable support for IEEE long double
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 17:15:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9lrimbr.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cb74a63078fbbcd09a5c4eb6dd7d3ddc89234f0d.1586199342.git.murphyp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (Paul E. Murphy via Libc-alpha's message of "Mon, 6 Apr 2020 14:12:39 -0500")
* Paul E. Murphy via Libc-alpha:
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 07da1545b4..a54c0e0f65 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ Major new features:
> * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
> DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
>
> +* powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
> + using the -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
> + toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
> + this option.
Why do you write “testing this option”?
To me, this implies that the feature is not ready yet. Is that the
case?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-22 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-06 19:12 [PATCH v3 0/6] IEEE binary128 long double on powerpc64le Paul E. Murphy
2020-04-06 19:12 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] ldbl-128ibm-compat: workaround GCC 9 C++ BZ 90731 Paul E. Murphy
2020-04-15 14:20 ` Paul E Murphy
2020-04-22 14:58 ` Paul E Murphy
2020-04-22 15:11 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-22 21:17 ` Paul E Murphy
2020-04-23 5:48 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-06 19:12 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] Rename __LONG_DOUBLE_USES_FLOAT128 to __LDOUBLE_REDIRECTS_TO_FLOAT128_ABI Paul E. Murphy
2020-04-15 14:21 ` Paul E Murphy
2020-04-22 14:59 ` Paul E Murphy
2020-04-06 19:12 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] powerpc64le: raise GCC requirement to 7.4 for long double transition Paul E. Murphy
2020-04-22 15:19 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-22 19:33 ` Paul E Murphy
2020-04-06 19:12 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] powerpc64le: bump binutils version requirement to >= 2.26 Paul E. Murphy
2020-04-22 15:20 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-06 19:12 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] powerpc64le: blacklist broken GCC compilers (e.g GCC 7.5.0) Paul E. Murphy
2020-04-22 15:23 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-06 19:12 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] powerpc64le: Enable support for IEEE long double Paul E. Murphy
2020-04-22 15:03 ` Paul E Murphy
2020-04-22 15:15 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2020-04-22 16:20 ` Paul E Murphy
2020-04-22 16:23 ` Florian Weimer
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