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Re: Irix6 long doubles implemented wrong? (27_io/ostream_inserter_arith)


On Jan 28, 2003, David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com> wrote:

> 	The functions are written in Fortran and utilize complex double
> precision floating point arguments and return values.

Eeek.  Why Fortran?  Can't they be implemented in C using pairs of
doubles, or at least unions?  On IRIX, they definitely can.  Is there
any weirdness in the way AIX/ppc passes arguments that prevents this?

Are they significantly different from what I described in pseudo-C?

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