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Re: V3 PATCH: Fix PR3988
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>,gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org,libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Subject: Re: V3 PATCH: Fix PR3988
- From: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 23:47:02 +0200
- References: <20010813152452T.mitchell@codesourcery.com>
On Tuesday 14 August 2001 00:24, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> The new limits stuff was accidentally thinking that the x86 had a long
> double type with 128 bits of precision, when really the precision is
> 80 bits. Here's the fix.
>
> Tested on i686-pc-linux-gnu, installed on the branch and on the
> mainline.
Hmm, don't we need the same stuff for powerpc too? AFAIK long double ==
double still on PPC, so __glibcpp_long_double_bits has to be set to 64. This
happens for powerpc64 (in config/os/gnu-linux/bits/os_defines.h), but not for
powerpc.
Franz.