long double bug

Ulrich Drepper drepper@cygnus.com
Mon Dec 28 17:39:00 GMT 1998


ralf@uni-koblenz.de writes:

> I've found a bug in libc 2.0.6 and libc 2.0.108.  The problem affects all
> architectures where sizeof(double) is sizeof(long double) or more exactly
> all architectures where long double doesn't have the same properties as on
> i386 and m68k.

I've checked in some changes now.  I'm not really satisfied with the
solution but since one of the things on the tale for glibc 2.2 is to
provide better support for various long double formats I don't really
care.  Give it a try.

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