--- Mer 8/9/10, Jerry DeLisle ha scritto:
> We are developing a quad precision
> floating point library for use with gfortran.
>
> When attempting to build the library under Cygwin, we are
> stopped because:
>
> __float128 is not supported when running the ./configure
> for the package. I suspect the issue may be related to
> newlib vs glibc, but I really don't know.
>
on cygwin we have
double = 64 bits
long double = 96 bits
but no float128
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-05/msg00985.html
> Do any of the Cygwin maintainers have any hints about
> this? I am still investigating. It would be nice
> to have this quad precision capability under Cygwin.
> The library is a software floating point library and does
> not depend on having special hardware. We have it
> running on i686 and x86-64 Linux, but so far no luck under
> Windows. If I learn more in the next few days, I will
> report here.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I leave that to Dave :-)
but I guess you need to add them on newlib
as there is no float128 there.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jerry
Marco
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