On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 04:05:46PM +, Paul Brook wrote:
> 1) Make long double == double. This is what Arm does, amongst others. This
> pretty much just works and should reduce the amount of support code required.
> Anyone wanting more than IEEE double precision has to use a third party
> bugn
On Dec 8, 2005, at 8:05 AM, Paul Brook wrote:
1) Make long double == double.
Eventually the day will come when one want something bigger, then,
you have to break abi for this. We did this on darwin, and ick,
whatta pain. I think I prefer a hard error for even mentioning long
double, as
We (CodeSourcery) currently working on developing ColdFire targeted GNU
toolchains (gcc, etc).
Currently gcc nominally uses a 12-byte "extended" precision type for the C
"long double" floating point type. This is inherited from the m68k gcc port,
but doesn't really make a whole lot of sense for