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Date:      Fri, 3 Jun 2005 08:07:30 +1000
From:      <peterg@ptree32.com.au>
To:        Andreas Tobler <toa@pop.agri.ch>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: calling/runtime convention for ppc fbsd
Message-ID:  <607f1a9f.64ea7e9.819d600@dommail.onthenet.com.au>

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>>  The one exception is that long doubles are 64-bit and not 128-bit.
>> OSX/NetBSD/Linux on powerpc all use 64-bit long doubles, so it
>> didn't seem to make a lot of sense to follow the ABI strictly there.
>
>OS-X does support long double with 128-bit :) At least the newer gcc's. 
>The os itself, well another question.

 Doh, it didn't when I checked last time :(  The problem with 128-bit
floats is that they're mostly done in s/w.

later,

Peter.



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