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Re: PowerPC floating point little-endian [1 of 15]
- From: Adhemerval Zanella <azanella at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 09:35:58 -0300
- Subject: Re: PowerPC floating point little-endian [1 of 15]
- References: <20130710012435 dot GN2602 at bubble dot grove dot modra dot org> <51DCF549 dot 4040000 at suse dot com>
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?