ABI freeze for GLIBC_2.4

[Dwayne Grant McConnell]

On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Roland McGrath wrote:

> There are a few items not yet in the tree that I expect to be added before
> the hard ABI freeze.  These are:

> * long double type switchover for ppc, sparc32, alpha, s390, others(?)
>   Patches for this are around and need to be updated and merged, and I've
>   committed to helping with that soon.  Each and every architecture
>   maintainer should check that the long double type is defined in the most
>   desireable way on their architecture and that the gcc and glibc support
>   is aligned.  We will not be happy about doing this again later for other
>   machines.

Are there specific items I can do to help with ppc[64]?

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