From: Stan Sieler <sieler@allegro.com>
To: drepper@redhat.com
Cc: willy@debian.org (Matthew Wilcox), parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] long double
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:13:51 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200201180113.RAA06216@opus.allegro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m36660a3qx.fsf@myware.mynet> from "Ulrich Drepper" at Jan 17, 2002 04:42:46 PM
Re:
[(stuff about how big "long double" is)]
> > (3) Change both gcc and glibc to think that long double is actually
> > 128-bits wide.
>
> This is definitely what you should do. glibc includes now a full set
> of 128-bit math functions. They should be used everywhere the ABI are
> not demanding the braindamaged 96-bit format. Even Alpha, PPC, etc
> will change to this when time comes.
That's why I use: real32, real64, real128 :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-18 1:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-18 0:35 [parisc-linux] long double Matthew Wilcox
2002-01-18 0:42 ` Ulrich Drepper
2002-01-18 1:13 ` Stan Sieler [this message]
2002-01-18 3:20 ` John David Anglin
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