From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>
Cc: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [rfc] Add some more floatformat types ....
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:12:00 -0000
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> 
> Yes.  But I'd rephrase it as...  The IA-64 reads/writes 16 bytes when
> loading/storing the 82-bit floating point register format.

Ok.

> The fly in the ointment is that the IA-64 also has a quad precision
> real type whose width is 128 bits (1 bit sign, 15 bit exponent,
> 112 bit significand).

Ulgh!  So we now need two IA-64 floating point types, any suggestion for 
a name? Does:

	ia64_ext
	ia64_quad

look ok (and please no one look at the VAX :-).

	Andrew