<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 19.12.2021 um 09:45 schrieb Sven Barth via fpc-devel <<a href="mailto:fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org" class="">fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Ben Grasset via fpc-devel <<a href="mailto:fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org" class="">fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org</a>> schrieb am So., 19. Dez. 2021, 08:33:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">To be very clear, to me, this is absolutely nothing more than just a matter of building the compiler completely normally. It takes like two minutes all-in. I don't really get why the person who uploads the 32-bit Windows builds currently doesn't just also upload 64-bit ones. They could even just use the native 64-bit builds Lazarus already includes. Anyways, yeah. I'd like to actually make this happen, next time around.</div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">There is already a combined 32-/64-bit download available since 3.2.2. We *won't* provide a pure, native 64-bit download for Win64, because the x86_64-win64 is not suitable for other x86_64 targets or for compiling a i386 or i8064 cross compiler due to the missing Extended support. Until FPC provides the necessary code to emulate 80-bit floating point we simply avoid this potential headache by not providing it. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>And the main obstacle for 80 bit softfloat support are the library routines (log, exp etc.).</div><div><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">As this has been discussed ad nauseam already, this decision is not up for discussion. </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Regards, </div><div dir="auto" class="">Sven </div><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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