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Re: Irix6 long doubles implemented wrong? (27_io/ostream_inserter_arith)
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org, oldham at codesourcery dot com, ro at TechFak dot Uni-Bielefeld dot DE, rth at redhat dot com
- Date: 28 Jan 2003 19:06:34 -0200
- Subject: Re: Irix6 long doubles implemented wrong? (27_io/ostream_inserter_arith)
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <200301282048.PAA31176@makai.watson.ibm.com>
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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