Re: ppc64el: IEEE 128-bit long double instead of IBM 128-bit long double
Matthias Klose <[email protected]>
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On 8/5/25 13:29, Matthias Klose wrote: > For the opening of trixie, both GCC and LLVM are prepared to change the > long double ABI from IBM 128-bit long double to IEEE 128-bit long > double. That is a change that other distros did long ago. > > For reference, please see > https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2023/05/16/benefits-fedora-38- > long-double-transition-ppc64le# > > I'm proposing to do this "transition" inline, doing just no-change > binNMUs in most cases. long double in the ABI is not that common. > Afaiu, Fedora and OpenSUSE did it this way, and also Ubuntu is doing it > currently this way. Ubuntu also has a (maybe incomplete) list of > packages, which require binNMUs. with GCC 15 now as the default, we are starting with the sourceful no-change uploads, as suggested by Graham. Progress is tracked in https://wiki.debian.org/ToolChain/IEEELongDouble