Re: `long double' support for ix86 targets

[Kevin Buettner <kevinb at cygnus dot com>]

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