From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Grundler Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: strtold Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 21:28:26 -0700 Message-ID: <20060108042826.GA3567@colo.lackof.org> References: <20060107210757.GM17559@baldric.uwo.ca> <200601072241.k07MfqiW020827@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> <20060107234230.GQ17559@baldric.uwo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: John David Anglin , tausq@debian.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org To: Carlos O'Donell Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <20060107234230.GQ17559@baldric.uwo.ca> List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: parisc-linux-bounces@lists.parisc-linux.org On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 06:42:30PM -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote: ... > > I've given up hope that HP will release their IEEE long double emulation > > code for PA-RISC. Although I don't have any hard evidence of bugs in it, > > there is the suggestion from the ada testsuite run under hpux that there > > may be bugs in the rounding and exception support. > > I agree, I don't think it will ever be released. If it is released then > we'll jigger it out some other way :) Me too. But I wouldn't worry about an ABI event too much. As long as the only dependency is debian/gentoo packages, then I think we can tolerate an ABI event like this on the next OS release if necessary. grant _______________________________________________ parisc-linux mailing list parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org http://lists.parisc-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/parisc-linux