Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 08:08:09 -0400 From: Diane Bruce <db@db.net> To: Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org> Cc: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Freebsd hackers list <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, emaste@freebsd.org, cy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the portable 128-bit floating point type? Message-ID: <20190526120809.GB65430@night.db.net> In-Reply-To: <6183B49B-76F2-4ABF-A6A2-D170C6164553@FreeBSD.org> References: <eb15d9e4-c1d4-3886-a3b7-1264c12396cd@rawbw.com> <20190525200437.GV2748@kib.kiev.ua> <e13bc70d-4d7e-3407-a0a0-14a64f94addd@rawbw.com> <20190525210311.GW2748@kib.kiev.ua> <3E0ACABC-D17B-45AD-9810-06ADA52F597A@FreeBSD.org> <6d9857d7-9624-2013-81e0-191c78ed3a4f@rawbw.com> <6183B49B-76F2-4ABF-A6A2-D170C6164553@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 12:02:34PM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote: > On 26 May 2019, at 02:20, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> wrote: > > > > On 2019-05-25 14:30, Dimitry Andric wrote: > >> But from clang's OSTargets.h file, it looks like 128 bit float support > >> is never set to enabled for FreeBSD. > > > > > > If clang supports __float128, and clang is FreeBSD's main compiler, shouldn't it be enabled on FreeBSD then? > > It probably should, but those kinds of things don't just magically appear > out of thin air: Somebody(TM) has to do the actual work to implement the > support, test it, maintain it, and so on. Apparently there has not yet > been any great need for this floating point precision. > > Are you volunteering? :) I've been slowly looking at it already in my copious spare time. It's really something we should be supporting. The libgcc_s wrong version problem is being dealt with by others by linking gfortran with a static version of libgcc_s (!). (As discussed with Cy at BSDCan 2019) See https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208120#c24 specifically comment 35 > > -Dimitry > > P.S.: I believe one of the first requirements is a <quadmath.h> header. > - Diane -- - db@FreeBSD.org db@db.net http://www.db.net/~db
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