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Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> As the attached testcase shows, printf_fphex for ldbl-128ibm
> has a bunch of issues when the lower double is denormal or has exponent 1.
> E.g. the implicit mantissa bit needs to be also set for exponent 1,
> the difference between exponents might be smaller than 53 (when the
> smaller double is denormal and the bigger double has exponent less than
> 53, etc.
>
>   
I spotted this while debugging nextafterl and put it on the list for
Ryan to look at. But you got there first

Unfortunately I have been busy with POWER6 perf tuning issues...
> I've also included the unrelated workaround for test-misc.c failures
> - the tests from 2007-05-03 aren't really testable on ppc/ppc64.
>   

Thanks!