On Jul 14, 2012, at 3:24 AM, David Chisnall wrote: > On 13 Jul 2012, at 17:40, Warner Losh wrote: > >> We shouldn't be gating the new math on an issue that only affects sparc64 >> machines > > Mostly agreed, but it's worth noting that the APCS for ARMv8[1] specifies > that long double should be IEEE 754- 2008 quad precision. I think ARMv8 is > going to be an important platform for us in the next few years, so ld128 is > not just for SPARC (I'd also like us to switch to ld128 on PowerPC, since > that's the ABI that everyone else uses, but I don't anticipate PowerPC > becoming tier 1 any time soon, whereas I would very much like to see ARMv8 > become tier 1 within a year of shipping silicon). > > That's not to say that we should hold things up waiting for ld128 versions, > just that adding ld128 versions soon after adding ld80 ones would be very > helpful.
Agreed. My point was more "don't gate everything on the 128-bit versions" not "hey, nobody do this, it is stupid." If the 128-bit versions are ready at the same time as the 80-bit versions, so much the better. Warner > David > > [1] > http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0055a/IHI0055A_aapcs64.pdf _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
