From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>
To: Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, libstdc++@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: V3 PATCH: Fix PR3988
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 14:46:00 -0000
Message-id: <5d9edeacae01a178148916b8cdb2973f@NO-ID-FOUND.mhonarc.org>
References: <20010813152452T.mitchell@codesourcery.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00854.html

On Tuesday 14 August 2001 00:24, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> The new limits stuff was accidentally thinking that the x86 had a long
> double type with 128 bits of precision, when really the precision is
> 80 bits.  Here's the fix.
>
> Tested on i686-pc-linux-gnu, installed on the branch and on the
> mainline.

Hmm, don't we need the same stuff for powerpc too? AFAIK long double == 
double still on PPC, so __glibcpp_long_double_bits has to be set to 64. This 
happens for powerpc64 (in config/os/gnu-linux/bits/os_defines.h), but not for 
powerpc.

Franz.