On Wed, 6 Oct 2021, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > > There's still some code in the compiler for a very old soft-float ABI for > > binary128 long double (passing by reference, using _q_* libcall names). I > > don't really think it makes much sense to use that for future _Float128 > > support for soft-float (certainly not the _q_* libcalls), rather than > > passing in four consecutive GPRs as is done for IBM long double for soft > > float, but we could. > > Maybe this harks back to POWER2 days? If so, we probably should just > remove that code, we do not support anything else POWER2 anymore.
The _q_* names and associated ABI are in the 1995 SunSoft PowerPC ABI (which I suppose was the ABI for PowerPC Solaris). -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
