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authorJonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>2022-04-28 10:30:58 +0100
committerJonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>2022-04-28 10:41:29 +0100
commit8094526109034c6c6af44de47612e97319b2c7c5 (patch)
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parentf39fcafbc0d2c49593dd8351b87cf43da9227953 (diff)
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doc: Remove misleading text about multilibs for IEEE long double
The choice of ieee or ibm long double format is orthogonal to multilibs, as the two sets of symbols co-exist and don't need a separate multilib. gcc/ChangeLog: * doc/install.texi (Configuration): Remove misleading text around LE PowerPC Linux multilibs.
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diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi
index 3192824bdc4..10bfceffceb 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/install.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi
@@ -2139,17 +2139,6 @@ Until all of the libraries are converted to use IEEE 128-bit floating
point, it is not recommended to use
@option{--with-long-double-format=ieee}.
-On little endian PowerPC Linux systems, if you explicitly set the
-@code{long double} type, it will build multilibs to allow you to
-select either @code{long double} format, unless you disable multilibs
-with the @code{--disable-multilib} option. At present,
-@code{long double} multilibs are not built on big endian PowerPC Linux
-systems. If you are building multilibs, you will need to configure
-the compiler using the @option{--with-system-zlib} option.
-
-If you do not set the @code{long double} type explicitly, no multilibs
-will be generated.
-
@item --enable-fdpic
On SH Linux systems, generate ELF FDPIC code.