Re: [RFC] Quad-float support for gfortran

2010-05-24 Thread Dennis Wassel
2010/5/24 FX fxcoud...@gmail.com: Dear gfortranners, For some work-related issue, I find the need to switch my code regularly between double precision real arithmetics and quad-float. I currently do that with a proprietary compiler whose brand name matches the regexp ^In{1,}[t]\x65l$, but

Re: [RFC] Quad-float support for gfortran

2010-05-24 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Mon, 24 May 2010, FX wrote: 1. assume that the user has compiled compile separately a quad-prec math library (says libmathq; possible relying on MPFR, as the implementation I propose) and arrange specs so that an option triggers linking to it 2. assume that the user has an MPFR

[RFC] Quad-float support for gfortran

2010-05-23 Thread FX
Dear gfortranners, For some work-related issue, I find the need to switch my code regularly between double precision real arithmetics and quad-float. I currently do that with a proprietary compiler whose brand name matches the regexp ^In{1,}[t]\x65l$, but I'd be even more happy to do that with