| I must confess this message looks a bit odd coming from the sparc64
| spearhead; have you had enough coffee yet?
|
| Since the SPARC port is 64-bit fpu/v8, wouldn't supporting 128-bit/v9
| on it be *forward* compatible?
|
| or is it I who have not yet consumed adequate doses of caffeine and
| hence am misunderstanding your question?
|
| # Is there some reason the sparc port does not support
| # the 128-bit FPU emulation and v9 instructions?  It should
| # be backwards compatible?

If you look at the size of `long double' in sol 8 you'll find it's
16.

Eduardo