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| author | Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> | 2017-12-26 20:55:44 -0800 |
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| committer | Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> | 2018-01-29 10:22:26 -0800 |
| commit | 40ca951bdb804bc42c0e1b06c20a48da98667e03 (patch) | |
| tree | 7eed5a73355741ee0b262d7afacfb4e65011ab6b /NEWS | |
| parent | 532cf290d023487b141b9369f29cd780ec93ac8b (diff) | |
Skeleton documentation for the RISC-V port
During the upstreaming process it was suggested that I add a handful of
small documentation entries about the RISC-V port, which I've collected
here.
2018-01-29 Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
* manual/math.texi: RISC-V supports _Float128 and _Float64x.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 16 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -41,13 +41,13 @@ Major new features: process aborts as the result of assertion failures. * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64, - alpha, mips64, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements _Float128 - interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These - are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where + alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements + _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. + These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where this format is supported but is not the format of long double. * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64, - mips64, powerpc64le, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now + mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128. @@ -98,6 +98,14 @@ Major new features: to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales. See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility. +* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port + requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported + for the following ISA and ABI pairs: + + - rv64imac lp64 + - rv64imafdc lp64 + - rv64imafdc lp64d + Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the |