A new test case

H.J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
Thu Feb 12 06:42:00 GMT 1998


> 
> On Wed, Feb 11, 1998 at 11:12:17PM -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> >   > 	* gcc.c-torture/execute/980211-1.c: New to test long double.
> > Is this test even correct for a big endian target?   In particular
> > the code in signbitl looks bogus at first glance.
> 
> No, it is in fact only correct for little-endian targets
> that use ieee754 extended format for long double.
> 
> To my knowledge this is i386 and i860 only.
> 

I can add ifdef for i386/i860 if necessary. If someone can write a
better one, it will be great. I just want it to be in egcs so that
it will be fixed before 1.0.2. BTW, gcc 2.8.0 and egcs 980122
are fine.

Thanks.


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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)



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