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Re: newlib and long-double question


----- Original Message ----- From: "Hugh Myers"

The OP is trying to build Perl itself, not use it; hence the need for
long double support functions...

You don't need "long double support functions" to build perl ... unless you want to build a perl whose NV is a long double (instead of a double).

Presumably the op wants to build a perl whose NV is a long double so that he can make use of that extra precision. Given that he can't build such a perl, the next best way of accessing that extra precision he wants is, imo, to use Math::MPFR.

Cheers,
Rob 


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