Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:31:07 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: "Thomas D. Dean" <tomdean@speakeasy.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gcc46 and 128 Bit Floating Point Message-ID: <CAGE5yCpvF0-b1iKAVGbya=fUNaYbGyrpj1PHSQxw4BvycNMLDg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F3EA37F.9010207@speakeasy.org> References: <4F3EA37F.9010207@speakeasy.org>
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On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Thomas D. Dean <tomdean@speakeasy.org> wrote: [..] > gcc46 is generating 80-bit floating point instructions. > > The gcc docs state gcc46 will generate 128-bit instructions. > > I can get gfortran46 to generate 128-bit instructions. > > How do I get gcc46 to generate 128-bit floating point instructions? "As of gcc 4.3, a quadruple precision is also supported on x86, but as the nonstandard type __float128 rather than long double." -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell
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