On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 01:23:16PM -0700, Janis Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 02:41:57PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, Ben Elliston wrote: > > >> Are they mentioned in any gcc changes.html? > > > No, they're not. They probably should be. > > > > Do you think we could talk the submitters/maintainers into donating a > > patch? :-) > > Support for the decimal floating point C extension could be mentioned > in the release notes for GCC 4.2, but there it's only supported for > powerpc*-linux and x86*-linux and only if requested at configure time. > The ABI for powerpc*-linux has changed since then, and the > representation will (has?) changed for x86*-linux. Is this worth > documenting for 4.2?
DFP doesn't really work for x86*-linux unitl Uros fixed a bunch of back-end/middle-end bugs in 4.3. H.J.
