rjmccall added a comment. In http://reviews.llvm.org/D15120#336282, @nemanjai wrote:
> Addressed review comments. > The key differences are: > > - No assignments or operations between entities of long double and __float128 > allowed if the two types have a different representation > - Each type has a distinct rank > > This isn't the same behaviour as GCC currently has. For example, GCC allows > assignments between the two types on PowerPC. The conversion is achieved > through a library routine. However, there is no compelling reason at this > point to allow such behaviour and this work is deferred until such a need > arises. As I understand it, PPC's long-double (~103 bits of precision) is still strictly less precise than float128_t (113 bits of precision), so it ought to be have lower rank. Is there actually a supported platform where this is not true? If not, we should just add this as another type with higher rank. Repository: rL LLVM http://reviews.llvm.org/D15120 _______________________________________________ cfe-commits mailing list cfe-commits@lists.llvm.org http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits
