------- Comment #5 from tkoenig at gcc dot gnu dot org  2005-10-07 20:12 -------

> It should be noted that the patch assumes that the padding for real(10) is 10
> bytes data + 2 bytes padding. This works on i686-Linux, might not work on 
> other
> targets (big endian?).

Itanium has padding to 16 bytes for 10-byte reals.

Using 12 bytes for 10-byte reals on ia686 would mean breaking binary
compatibility with Itanium :-(


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