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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