long double (was "strtold?")

[Ken Werner]

On Friday 17 April 2009 23:19:33 Howland Craig D (Craig) wrote:
> Umm, I don't understand the change to machine/ieeefp.h.  The defines
> that it was using are the official names from float.h.  Adding __ as a
> prefix and suffix ties it directly to gcc.  The makes it work for gcc
> without float.h having been included, but won't it break other
> compilers?
> (There's nothing in the standards that I know of that would require
> __LDBL_MANT_DIG__ to be defined, for example.)  So perhaps it did not
> build as it was, but the way to fix it for all compilers is to add
> #include <float.h>, I think.  (Newlib doesn't require gcc, does it?)
> 				Craig

Craig,

Thanks for the heads up, you are right. The attached patch uses defines 
provided by <float.h> instead of the GCC internals.

Ken

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