On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 06:31:07PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
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>
> Merely an FYI ... the word on the street is that GCC 8 will provide a
> solid implementation of libquadmath to ppc64. We also know that the
> newer IBM Power line will have some hardware implementation for the
> new 128-bit floating point type. Not sure if anyone else is thrilled
> by this but for me big sparc has been the only way to get that level
> of floating point working. Namely Solaris because libquadmath code is
> all based on the original SunPro code that went into Solaris.
>
> see
> http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/lib/libm/common/LD/sinl.c
>
> see https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libquadmath/math/sinq.c
>
> In any case I hope to see this works cross platform on sparc and ppc64
> and also perhaps on PA-Risc as I have a few superdomes on hand.
>
> I have gcc-8-20180415 boot strapping now with the gcc 7.3.0 I had built
> just yesterday :
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2018-04/msg01351.html
>
> Even better results on Solaris 10 sparc :
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2018-04/msg01455.html
>
> Note that a better GNU make with modern glibc is needed to get past
> stage 1 and the patches are available :
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2018-04/msg00018.html
>
> Works flawlessly on RHEL 7.4 x86_64 and PPC64 and SPARC64.
>
> I should followup with gcc 8-beta results shortly.
>
> Dennis
>
> ps: is anyone else having fun with this or just me ?
Well, I don't have time to spend on this but I'm tracking you fairly
closely.
Of course our spam filter decided to classify you as a spammer and to
withhold all your messages, so I had to put you into my trusted list.
Gabriel
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> Subject: [Bug web/82686] Debian sid powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu
> 4.13.0-1-powerpc64 bootstrap breaks in stage3 with unexpected requirement
> for bdw-gc
> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 23:16:36 +0000
> From: glaubitz at physik dot fu-berlin.de <gcc-bugzi...@gcc.gnu.org>
> To: dcla...@blastwave.org
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> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82686
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> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz at physik dot fu-berlin.de> changed:
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