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Re: `long double' support for ix86 targets
On Mar 3, 11:25am, Jim Kingdon wrote:
> > Kevin's changes to findvar.c:extract_floating() and store_floating()
> > together with some further analysis have convinced me that for all but
> > one ix86 targets 96-bit long doubles of type &floatformat_i387_ext are
> > the right thing.
>
> That analysis looks sound to me.
>
> Unless you get some feedback from others, I'd go with that patch.
Mark's patch looks good to me too. I am curious though to see how OSF/1
will be handled. (That was the one case that Mark had identified where
overrides will be needed. I think it'd be good to apply a patch for
the OSF/1 targets at the same time that he applies his other patch.)
Kevin