From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: getting same output as gfortran, long_float
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 09:01:49 +0200
Date: 2015-05-01T09:01:49+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8l21s6x1msg0.ti471jkwzl1y.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mhujuf$jbs$1@speranza.aioe.org
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 20:12:47 -0500, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> So, I wonder what it would take to integrate this
> library to gnat to allow one to do
>
> type My_Float is digits 34;
That would require compiler maintainers.
> and just have it work as is. I assume this requires
> support and some changes at the compiler level
> (system.max_digits has to change for example)? Now it
> is set at 18 and the above gives compiler error.
AFAIK GCC has integrated support for __float128, so if you could live with
type IEEE_Float_128 is private;
you would need no changes in the compiler. Arithmetic operations would be
implemented through calls to <quadmath.h> or whatever GCC uses.
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2015-04-30 21:17 getting same output as gfortran, long_float Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-04-30 22:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-04-30 22:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-04-30 22:37 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-04-30 22:53 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-05-01 7:22 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2015-05-01 1:12 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-05-01 6:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-05-01 7:32 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-05-01 7:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-05-04 0:15 ` robin.vowels
2015-05-04 7:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-05-04 8:53 ` robin.vowels
2015-05-04 10:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-05-04 13:45 ` robin.vowels
2015-05-04 14:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-05-07 2:01 ` robin.vowels
2015-05-01 23:24 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2015-05-04 0:09 ` robin.vowels
2015-05-01 7:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2015-05-04 0:42 ` robin.vowels
2015-04-30 22:12 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-04-30 22:27 ` Qun-Ying
2015-05-01 0:59 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2015-04-30 22:32 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-05-01 1:16 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-05-01 1:40 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-05-01 7:47 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2015-05-01 15:39 ` Waldek Hebisch
2015-05-01 17:27 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-05-01 18:03 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-05-04 0:51 ` robin.vowels
2015-05-04 0:47 ` robin.vowels
2015-05-01 8:21 ` Simon Wright
2015-05-01 11:55 ` Georg Bauhaus
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