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Re: PowerPC floating point little-endian [1 of 15]


On 10-07-2013 02:46, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> 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

Hi Alan,

Could push your set of changes into a branch?


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