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Re: float128 in libstdc++



On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 10:27:40PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> The first solution is being rejected by Joerg on LLVM review as there
> might be incomplete support in lib[std]c++. I have no personal
> preference which way to go.

There is no compiler-rt support for it for i386 at least and changing
that is painful without going all the way into implementing int128_t.
I see little point in supporting it, given the complete lack of hardware
acceleration support in x86 land.

Joerg


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