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Re: compiler_rt missing support for 80-bit floats?



On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:25:19PM +0100, Aymeric Vincent wrote:
> This leaves us with src/lib/libc/softfloat which seems to lack the alias
> required for this function. I enclose a patch which adds it there but I
> don't know if it's still used on any platform, probably depends on the
> gcc version being used. It's clearly not used on amd64, even on the
> netbsd-7 branch.

Yes, lots of platforms do (e.g. mips, m68k or arm variants without
FPU), sparc64 for 128bit floats not natively supported by the FPU...

It is not bound to any gcc version.

Martin


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