From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@codesourcery.com>
To: Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.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 14:53:00 -0000
Message-id: <fl66bqqpev.fsf@pizza.cmla.ens-cachan.fr>
References: <20010813152452T.mitchell@codesourcery.com> <200108142147.XAA20070@mayo.cmla.ens-cachan.fr>
X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00859.html

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?

Thanks,

-- Gaby
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