Excerpts from Kewen Lin's message of Juni 3, 2024 5:00 am:
> Joseph pointed out "floating types should have their mode,
> not a poorly defined precision value" in the discussion[1],
> as he and Richi suggested, the existing macros
> {FLOAT,{,LONG_}DOUBLE}_TYPE_SIZE will be replaced with a
> hook mode_for_floating_type. To be prepared for that, this
> patch is to replace use of LONG_DOUBLE_TYPE_SIZE in d with
> TYPE_PRECISION of long_double_type_node.
>
> [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2024-May/651209.html
>
Thanks, one question though: Is TYPE_PRECISION really equivalent to
LONG_DOUBLE_TYPE_SIZE?
Unless LONG_DOUBLE_TYPE_SIZE was poorly named to begin with, I'd assume
the answer to be "no".
i.e: TYPE_PRECISION = 80, but LONG_DOUBLE_TYPE_SIZE = 96 or 128.
Iain.
