On 13 March 2018 at 02:47, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > > I did some digging and found that the new floating point types[1] really > only exist in a few architectures. Near as I can tell. However I have > yet to see them. Yet. Working on it. I am not sure if the Debian > packages for gcc allow them nor sure if the kernel config even has the > options yet. Certianly math emulation can be done but actual software > implementations of _Float128? I don't *yet* know. I have linux kernel > 4.15.9 on ppc64 however that won't suffice. Certainly won't work on > plain jane 32-bit x86 either regardless of kernel rev. The kernel has nothing to do with it, does it? The requirements are on GCC and glibc.
