fmal and nexttowardl on alpha

Andreas Jaeger aj@suse.de
Sun Apr 1 11:29:00 GMT 2001


Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:

> Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
> 
> > Here's a patch - ok to commit?
> 
> I think it was intentional that we didn't add some of the long double
> functions for Alpha.  Ideally none would have been added.  At some
> point we want to be able to add 128-bit long double.  So, by
> "accidently" leaving out some long double functions maybe we can carry
> the message to not use long double on Alpha.

It's not only Alpha - it's all platforms that don't have long double,
e.g. also Sparc.

I'd argue to add the functions since they're part of ISO C99.

Andreas
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