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Re: GDB/libiberty support for IBM long double

From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:54:40 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: GDB/libiberty support for IBM long double
References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710260010100.18140@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <200710260753.l9Q7rAvq014149@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl>

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Mark Kettenis wrote:

> Hmm, can't we have a somewhat better (more general) name than
> floatformats_ibm_long_double (especially since it is no exclusively
> used for IBM hardware).

IBM long double is the name used in the GCC ABI option 
(-mabi=ibmlongdouble) and in the taxonomy in use by the Power ABI working 
group (ATR-LONG-DOUBLE-IBM).  The alternative I've seen is "double double" 
but that looks rather like a typo.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

References:
- GDB/libiberty support for IBM long double
  - From: Joseph S. Myers
- Re: GDB/libiberty support for IBM long double
  - From: Mark Kettenis

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