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authorAndreas Schwab <schwab@gcc.gnu.org>2002-04-19 17:50:40 +0000
committerAndreas Schwab <schwab@gcc.gnu.org>2002-04-19 17:50:40 +0000
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Add some explanation for last change.
From-SVN: r52531
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gcc/real.c b/gcc/real.c
index ad3d4b3..56b365e 100644
--- a/gcc/real.c
+++ b/gcc/real.c
@@ -209,7 +209,10 @@ typedef unsigned int UHItype __attribute__ ((mode (HI)));
#endif
/* Calculate the size of the generic "e" type. This always has
- identical in-memory size to REAL_VALUE_TYPE.
+ identical in-memory size to REAL_VALUE_TYPE. The sizes are supposed
+ to be the same as well, but when REAL_VALUE_TYPE_SIZE is not evenly
+ divisible by HOST_BITS_PER_WIDE_INT we have some padding in
+ REAL_VALUE_TYPE.
There are only two supported sizes: ten and six 16-bit words (160
or 96 bits). */