On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 04:06:53PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote: > I'm including the global reviewers on the list. I just want to be sure that > there is no problem installing these patches on the GCC 6.2 branch. While it > is technically an enchancement, it is needed to be able to install the glibc > support that is needed to complete the work to add IEEE 128-bit floating > point. > > The issue being fixed is that when we are creating the complex type, we used > to > do a lookup for the size, and that fails on the PowerPC which has 2 128-bit > floating point types (__ibm128 and __float128, with long double currently > defaulting to __ibm128).
The rs6000 parts are okay to backport to 6. Thanks, Segher
