On Wed, 2017-09-06 at 20:12 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
On Wed, 2017-09-06 at 11:32 -0500, Steven Munroe wrote:
>
> > libdfp currently isn't Fedora. glibc doesn't use _Decimal, so I
don't
> > see how these things are related.
> >
> > Would you please elaborate?
> >
> I though we here talking about a distro and supporting the platform.
> GLIBC is too narrow a topic.
No.
We are talking *purely* about what builds of glibc should be done, as
the current set seems excessive and is taking too long.
Yes and I suggested in the spirit of compromise, to drop the power6
glibc build if fedora would provide libdfp multilib for emulation and
power6 HW DFP. Eliminate 1 GLIBC build for 2 much smaller libdfp builds.
That seem fair and equitable to me in the interest of supporting the
POWER platform and the Linux ecosystem. For example develop and test
_Decimal[32|64|128] applications and libraries on G5 970 for deployment
on power6/7/8/9 systems.
Because ... Decimal floating Point is in all the relevant standards and
fully supported in the last 3 generations of POWER hardware (4
generations with power9).