From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from opus.allegro.com (opus.allegro.com [209.10.39.50]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F66E482A for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 18:13:55 -0700 (MST) From: Stan Sieler Message-Id: <200201180113.RAA06216@opus.allegro.com> Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] long double To: drepper@redhat.com Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:13:51 -0800 (PST) Cc: willy@debian.org (Matthew Wilcox), parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org In-Reply-To: from "Ulrich Drepper" at Jan 17, 2002 04:42:46 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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 :) -- Stan Sieler sieler@allegro.com www.allegro.com/sieler/wanted/index.html www.sieler.com