On Tue, 30 Jul 2024, Richard Biener wrote:

> > Oh, and please add a small comment why we don't use XFmode here.
> 
> Will do.
> 
>         /* Do not enable XFmode, there is padding in it and it suffers
>            from normalization upon load like SFmode and DFmode when
>            not using SSE.  */

Is it really true? I have no evidence of FLDT performing normalization
(as mentioned in PR 114659, if it did, there would be no way to spill/reload
x87 registers).

(the padding is not part of the 80-bit mode precision of XFmode, right?)

Alexander

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