On 2005-06-01 15:29:37 +0930, Alan Modra wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:53:05PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Under the 32-bit version, there's no extended precision. > > No. powerpc-linux has 128-bit IEEE soft-float long double. > > $ cat > fadd.c <<\EOF > long double fadd (long double a, long double b) { return a + b; } > EOF > $ gcc -m32 -mlong-double-128 -c fadd.c
But that's not the default and you'll have problems when linking with existing libraries on the machine, that use a 64-bit long double... -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA