the original post which spurred this discussion can be found at
http://thinman.wildrice.com/cgi-bin/gforum.cgi?post=56155

in a nutshell, codesourcery is looking to change behavior of long double
under gcc's m68k coldfire variants, which currently follows the native
80bit representation of the 68881.

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