libquadmath or mpfr support

[Jonathan Brandmeyer]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 10:18 AM Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 8:00 AM Jonathan Brandmeyer
> <jbrandmeyer at planetiq.com> wrote:
> >
> > In our project we have a use case that justifies using double-double
> arithmetic.  Is it possible to get the RTEMS toolchain to include
> libquadmath.a in the build?  Alternatively, does anyone have experience
> getting mpfr installed and running under RTEMS?
> >
>
> Did you figure this out?
>

Nope.  There was more than one way to solve this particular problem; having
quad-precision long double would have been a particularly easy
refactoring.  Without it, we refactored the use cases to be a
{high-precision constant + deviation} and {fixed-point int +
double-precision fraction} instead.

Sincerely,
-- 
Jonathan Brandmeyer
PlanetiQ
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