On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 01:26:32PM -0600, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 06:12:31PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
> > Two of the tests used the __ieee128 keyword instead of __float128.  This
> > patch changes those cases to use the official keyword.
> 
> What is "official" about that?
> 
> Why make this change at all?  __ieee128 should work as well!  Did you
> see failures without this patch?  Thos need fixing, then.

We document '__float128'.  We don't document '__ieee128'.  As I said, using
'__ieee128' internally was due some issues in the GCC 7 time frame,
particularly before we had the glibc changes.

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