[parisc-linux] long double

[Ulrich Drepper]

Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> writes:

> (3) Change both gcc and glibc to think that long double is actually
> 128-bits wide.

This is definitely what you should do.  glibc includes now a full set
of 128-bit math functions.  They should be used everywhere the ABI are
not demanding the braindamaged 96-bit format.  Even Alpha, PPC, etc
will change to this when time comes.

> This is almost certainly going to break some packages, and the
> kernel FP support may have to be enhanced to emulate some of the
> opcodes.

Not necessarily.  Look at soft-fp support in glibc.

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