On 2/16/06, Paul Brook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 16 February 2006 11:09, François-Xavier Coudert wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm sending this mail because I'm a bit confused about the > > -mlong-double-128 option on (for example) ppc64-linux, and its impact > > on gfortran/libgfortran. > Having gfortran magically know about certain ABI breaking options, and doing > funny things on certain targets seems a very bad precedent to me.
The point is that from a gfortran perspective -mlong-double-128 doesn't change the ABI, it merely adds to it (which is sort of a change, but less invasive than changing long double from 8bytes to 16bytes). So we can easily cope with the user request for -mlong-double-128 by always providing the kind=16 intrinsics. Richard.
