hubert.reinterpretcast added a comment.

In http://reviews.llvm.org/D15120#337654, @rjmccall wrote:

> In http://reviews.llvm.org/D15120#337552, @hubert.reinterpretcast wrote:
>
> > It remains that the present standardization effort (as `_Float128`) does 
> > not imbue the "interchange" type with inherently higher rank than `long 
> > double`. In a parallel to the treatment of extended integer types, the 
> > "standard" type has higher rank when the set of values are equivalent 
> > between the two. This is consistent with the GCC implementation (online 
> > compiler: http://melpon.org/wandbox/permlink/tM3PyGWC5WTWIdKP).
>
>
> Do we have anyone involved in this standardization effort?  It seems like a 
> really poor idea to having type ranking be target-dependent.


I can reach out to someone who is involved.

> 

> 

> > As I have mentioned before, for `__float128` and `-mlong-double-128` on 
> > x86-64, GCC ends up with an undesirable situation of treating the types as 
> > distinct, but mangling them the same.

> 

> 

> Does Clang currently support that option?


It appears that Clang does not currently support that option; however, there 
are platforms where `long double` is already IEEE quad, e.g., 
s390x-ibm-linux-gnu (where I have not found a GCC providing `__float128`). It 
appears that we can defer the issue as long as we do not provide `__float128` 
when `long double` is already IEEE quad.


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http://reviews.llvm.org/D15120



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