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authorschwab <schwab@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4>2002-04-19 17:50:40 +0000
committerschwab <schwab@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4>2002-04-19 17:50:40 +0000
commit4e51e4f01ca6c078dbd70a08e6d0d6345f6c634b (patch)
tree02a641976d6635598dfa673359112971b2074731 /gcc/real.c
parentfeaa7d87b66028341ca037d8c911fbfd433cde24 (diff)
downloadgcc-4e51e4f01ca6c078dbd70a08e6d0d6345f6c634b.tar.gz
Add some explanation for last change.
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk@52531 138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4
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@@ -209,7 +209,10 @@ typedef unsigned int UHItype __attribute__ ((mode (HI)));
#endif
/* Calculate the size of the generic "e" type. This always has
- identical in-memory size to REAL_VALUE_TYPE.
+ identical in-memory size to REAL_VALUE_TYPE. The sizes are supposed
+ to be the same as well, but when REAL_VALUE_TYPE_SIZE is not evenly
+ divisible by HOST_BITS_PER_WIDE_INT we have some padding in
+ REAL_VALUE_TYPE.
There are only two supported sizes: ten and six 16-bit words (160
or 96 bits). */