Request for clarification on the 128bit long double requirments

Andrew Pinski pinskia@physics.uc.edu
Fri Feb 3 19:45:00 GMT 2006


> 
> I would like to understand better why and how this GCC 4.1 requirement
> for adding 128bit long double support came about.   Maybe better
> understanding how this "mistake" came to happen will better understand
> why GCC 4.1 will be delayed because of this change?
> 
> What I am looking for is the dicussion where glibc decided to
> move over and to require GCC to move over too.  What I can
> find is mails from July and March of last year for a glibc
One correct, July and March of 2004 which makes the idea
almost two years old.  And that means the gcc patches should
have been worked out all the way back then instead of cramming
them in for this month.

-- Pinski



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