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

[David Edelsohn]

>>>>> Alexandre Oliva writes:

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

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

	Because Fortran generally produces higher performance code and the
algorithm is most efficiently implemented as operations on complex types,
again, more common in Fortran.

David