Consider porting APFloat
support for Power ISA's long double
#6
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area: c
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area: numerics
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area: tests
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state: deliberation
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Background: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Ieee128PowerPC#Background
I do not intend to port this code from LLVM initially. It is known to be wrong in many cases, and I think misleading people into thinking that it's supported correctly is bad. It's notable that GCC just refuses to constant-fold
long double
s in this format (breaking with the C standard), while Clang will do it but silently get wrong results. Neither is great, but I think GCC gets it more right than Clang.Leaving this issue open mainly to gauge interest in this (incomplete) support.
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