From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>
To: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@codesourcery.com>
Cc: 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 14:59:00 -0000
Message-id: <e90925a91140872b3f36f0ec8efb7223@NO-ID-FOUND.mhonarc.org>
References: <20010813152452T.mitchell@codesourcery.com> <200108142147.XAA20070@mayo.cmla.ens-cachan.fr> <fl66bqqpev.fsf@pizza.cmla.ens-cachan.fr>
X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00863.html

On Tuesday 14 August 2001 23:53, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com> writes:
> | 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.
>
> Would you mind to provide a patch that defines the correct size?

Well, a patch for config/os/gnu-linux/bits/os_defines.h or a solution like 
the 386 one that Mark did?

Franz.