From 5aa2f9a208162389a743c45cebb72a994effca1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex H <bearodark@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 May 2024 12:54:34 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Make f128 docs mention lack of any normal platform support
Co-authored-by: Jubilee <46493976+workingjubilee@users.noreply.github.com>
Update library/core/src/primitive_docs.rs
Remove orphaned doc link and clean up grammar a bit
Update library/core/src/primitive_docs.rs
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library/core/src/primitive_docs.rs | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/library/core/src/primitive_docs.rs b/library/core/src/primitive_docs.rs
index 7fa119b5006..cc369f1733f 100644
--- a/library/core/src/primitive_docs.rs
+++ b/library/core/src/primitive_docs.rs
@@ -1187,15 +1187,15 @@ mod prim_f64 {}
/// as many bits as `f64`. Please see [the documentation for [`prim@f32`] or [Wikipedia on
/// quad-precision values][wikipedia] for more information.
///
-/// Note that no platforms have hardware support for `f128` without enabling target specific features
-/// (and [only some consumer level hardware has support][wikipedia-support], for example RISC-V has support, but
-/// neither amd64 nor aarch64 has support), in which case a software implementation will be used. This can be
-/// significantly slower than using `f64`.
+/// Note that no platforms have hardware support for `f128` without enabling target specific features,
+/// as for all instruction set architectures `f128` is considered an optional feature.
+/// Only Power ISA ("PowerPC") and RISCV specify it, and only certain microarchitectures
+/// actually implement it. For x86-64 and AArch64, ISA support is not even specified,
+/// so it will always be a software implementation significantly slower than `f64`.
///
/// *[See also the `std::f128::consts` module](crate::f128::consts).*
///
/// [wikipedia]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadruple-precision_floating-point_format
-/// [wikipedia-support]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadruple-precision_floating-point_format#Hardware_support
#[unstable(feature = "f128", issue = "116909")]
mod prim_f128 {}