What is the portable 128-bit floating point type?

[Steve Kargl]

On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 07:58:51AM -0400, Diane Bruce wrote:
> On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 04:13:10PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 12:03:11AM +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 01:50:24PM -0700, Yuri wrote:
> > > > On 2019-05-25 13:04, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> ...
> > > On the other hand, I have no idea if any support is required from
> > > libgcc (probably it is), and we almost certainly do not have it in
> > > the base library.
> > 
> > This is part of the problem with gfortran finding the wrong
> > libgcc_s.so.
> 
> Regarding this see  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11482#423561
> and https://wiki.freebsd.org/libgcc%20problem
> 

I was aware of the latter wiki page.  The former is interesting.

I wasn't aware of the former.  Nice to see someone(s) taking an
interest in the missing libgcc_s.so symbols.  Seems that my
efforts [1] to track the symbols missing for gfortran may have 
paiid off.

[1] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2019-February/115593.html
-- 
Steve