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| author | James Greenhalgh <james.greenhalgh@arm.com> | 2016-12-13 10:40:32 +0000 |
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| committer | James Greenhalgh <jgreenhalgh@gcc.gnu.org> | 2016-12-13 10:40:32 +0000 |
| commit | 87d5619ead709aa4314d7b0d6553c9905e3d66b5 (patch) | |
| tree | aa20081c888eef93ec546ef0845f4bf6ca54cd9d /gcc | |
| parent | 30fec2f9bf6a5dc1048388ed5bd3ba4d2e359478 (diff) | |
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[Patch doc] Document _Float16 availability on ARM/AArch64
gcc/
* doc/extend.texi (Floating Types): Document availability of
_Float16 on ARM/AArch64.
From-SVN: r243601
Diffstat (limited to 'gcc')
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| -rw-r--r-- | gcc/doc/extend.texi | 6 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog index daa4e8c..16c1eca 100644 --- a/gcc/ChangeLog +++ b/gcc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2016-12-13 James Greenhalgh <james.greenhalgh@arm.com> + + * doc/extend.texi (Floating Types): Document availability of + _Float16 on ARM/AArch64. + 2016-12-13 Richard Biener <rguenther@suse.de> PR tree-optimization/78699 diff --git a/gcc/doc/extend.texi b/gcc/doc/extend.texi index a8402e1..d824449 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/extend.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/extend.texi @@ -997,8 +997,10 @@ IEEE binary128 format. The @code{_Float64x} type is supported on all systems where @code{__float128} is supported. The @code{_Float32} type is supported on all systems supporting IEEE binary32; the @code{_Float64} and @code{Float32x} types are supported on all systems -supporting IEEE binary64. GCC does not currently support -@code{_Float16} or @code{_Float128x} on any systems. +supporting IEEE binary64. The @code{_Float16} type is supported on AArch64 +systems by default, and on ARM systems when the IEEE format for 16-bit +floating-point types is selected with @option{-mfp16-format=ieee}. +GCC does not currently support @code{_Float128x} on any systems. On the PowerPC, @code{__ibm128} provides access to the IBM extended double format, and it is intended to be used by the library functions |