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Subject: Re: Gcc46 and 128 Bit Floating Point
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On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Thomas D. Dean <tomdean@speakeasy.org> wrote:
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> 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."

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