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Re: [rfc] Add some more floatformat types ....
>
> Yes. But I'd rephrase it as... The IA-64 reads/writes 16 bytes when
> loading/storing the 82-bit floating point register format.
Ok.
> The fly in the ointment is that the IA-64 also has a quad precision
> real type whose width is 128 bits (1 bit sign, 15 bit exponent,
> 112 bit significand).
Ulgh! So we now need two IA-64 floating point types, any suggestion for
a name? Does:
ia64_ext
ia64_quad
look ok (and please no one look at the VAX :-).
Andrew