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+<dt>November 16, 2010</dt>
+<dd><a href="gcc-4.6/changes.html">GCC 4.6.0</a> will include the
+<tt>libquadmath</tt> library, which provides quad-precision mathematical
+functions on targets supporting the <tt>__float128</tt> datatype. The
+library is used to provide on such targets the <tt>REAL(16)</tt> type in GNU
+Fortran compiler. The library has been contributed by François-Xavier
+Coudert.</dd>
Would you mind using <code>...</code> instead of <tt>...</tt> and
making this a link to gcc-4.6/changes.html#libquadmath (adding that
as an id="libquadmath" at the changes.html page)?
How about changing the last two sentences
The library is used to provide on such targets the <tt>REAL(16)</tt>
type in GNU Fortran compiler. The library has been contributed by
François-Xavier Coudert.
to
The library is used to provide the <code>REAL(16)</code> type on
such targets. It has been contributed by François-Xavier
Coudert.
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generic link-time optimization framework (LTO) introduced
in <a href="../gcc-4.5/changes.html">GCC 4.5.0</a>.</li>
+ <li>GCC now ships with the LGPL-licensed <tt>libquadmath</tt> library,
+ which provides for targets with a <tt>__float128</tt> datatype
+ quad-precision mathematical functions. <tt>__float128</tt> is available
+ for targets on 32-bit x86, x86-64 and Itanium architectures. The
+ <tt>libquadmath</tt> library is automatically build on such targets
+ when building the Fortran compiler.</tt>
"build" -> "built"
And <li id="libquadmath"> should give you the target for the link from
Hi Tobias, I like this! On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Tobias Burnus wrote: > Do you have comments or suggestions before I install it? the main page. And <tt>...</tt> -> <code>...</code> throughout. + of magnitute slower than with the 4, 8 or 10 bytes floating-point data types. magnitude Thanks! Gerald