long double on RS/6000

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From: keith
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 04:19

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The IBM RS/6000 does a very good job of supporting quad precision
floating point (16 bytes per number) but I can't seem to access it
from gcc.  I tried long double and got the same results as double.

How can I get access to the quad precision?  Are there any plans to
implement it via long double in gcc?


Thanks in advance.

Keith S Cover
Physics, UBC
keith@msmri.med.ubc.ca

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