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Re: PowerPC floating point little-endian [1 of 15]
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot com>
- To: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:46:49 +0200
- Subject: Re: PowerPC floating point little-endian [1 of 15]
- References: <20130710012435 dot GN2602 at bubble dot grove dot modra dot org>
On 07/10/2013 03:24 AM, Alan Modra wrote:
> This is the first of a series of patches to ban ieee854_long_double
> and the ieee854_long_double macros when using IBM long double. union
> ieee854_long_double just isn't correct for IBM long double, especially
> when little-endian, and pretending it is OK has allowed a number of
> bugs to remain undetected in sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-128ibm/.
Note that I review and comment on these with the understanding that this
should go into glibc 2.19 (once the tree opens again), we're in freeze
for 2.18 now. For 2.18 (current head) you need Dave Miller's approval.
This patch looks fine,
Andreas
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