From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25058 invoked by alias); 26 Oct 2007 14:54:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 25027 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Oct 2007 14:54:50 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:54:47 +0000 Received: (qmail 14074 invoked from network); 26 Oct 2007 14:54:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digraph.polyomino.org.uk) (joseph@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 26 Oct 2007 14:54:44 -0000 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by digraph.polyomino.org.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IlQa8-0006dB-Cx; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:54:40 +0000 Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:01:00 -0000 From: "Joseph S. Myers" To: Mark Kettenis cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: GDB/libiberty support for IBM long double In-Reply-To: <200710260753.l9Q7rAvq014149@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: References: <200710260753.l9Q7rAvq014149@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-10/txt/msg00713.txt.bz2 On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Mark Kettenis wrote: > Hmm, can't we have a somewhat better (more general) name than > floatformats_ibm_long_double (especially since it is no exclusively > used for IBM hardware). IBM long double is the name used in the GCC ABI option (-mabi=ibmlongdouble) and in the taxonomy in use by the Power ABI working group (ATR-LONG-DOUBLE-IBM). The alternative I've seen is "double double" but that looks rather like a typo. -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com