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Re: Question about soft-fp

To: Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>
Subject: Re: Question about soft-fp
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf at uni-koblenz dot de>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 00:40:49 +0100
Cc: aj at suse dot de, libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <u87lhiuh54.fsf@gromit.rhein-neckar.de> <20000124155900.A16426@uni-koblenz.de> <200001242328.PAA24189@localhost.cygnus.com>

On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 03:28:11PM -0800, Geoff Keating wrote:

> > The MIPS ABI defines:
> > 
> > 	float		32-bit IEEE single precission
> > 	double		64-bit IEEE double precission
> > 	long double	64-bit IEEE double precission
> > 
> > I think having optional higher precission would be nice to have but it would
> > have to be disabled unless explicitly enabled by some special compiler
> > option.
> 
> You could use
> 
> typedef long double really_long_double __attribute__((mode,TFmode));
> 
> or whatever.

Is this supposed to work without any further compiler changes to the
MIPS backend?

  Ralf

References:
- Question about soft-fp
  - From: Andreas Jaeger
- Re: Question about soft-fp
  - From: Ralf Baechle

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