calling/runtime convention for ppc fbsd

peterg at ptree32.com.au peterg at ptree32.com.au
Thu Jun 2 15:07:37 PDT 2005


>>  The one exception is that long doubles are 64-bit and not 128-bit.
>> OSX/NetBSD/Linux on powerpc all use 64-bit long doubles, so it
>> didn't seem to make a lot of sense to follow the ABI strictly there.
>
>OS-X does support long double with 128-bit :) At least the newer gcc's. 
>The os itself, well another question.

 Doh, it didn't when I checked last time :(  The problem with 128-bit
floats is that they're mostly done in s/w.

later,

Peter.


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