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Fix comment in i386/fpu_control.h



AFAIK we need double extended precission for x87.

Is the appended patch ok to commit?

Andreas

2001-04-24  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@suse.de>

	* sysdeps/i386/fpu_control.h (_FPU_EXTENDED): Fix comment.


--- sysdeps/i386/fpu_control.h	Thu Jul  6 00:18:40 2000
+++ sysdeps/i386/fpu_control.h	Tue Apr 24 12:23:50 2001
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* FPU control word bits.  i387 version.
-   Copyright (C) 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 1993,1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This file is part of the GNU C Library.
    Contributed by Olaf Flebbe.
 
@@ -64,9 +64,9 @@
 #define _FPU_MASK_PM  0x20
 
 /* precision control */
-#define _FPU_EXTENDED 0x300
-#define _FPU_DOUBLE   0x200	/* fdlibm requires double precision */
-#define _FPU_SINGLE   0x0     /* DO NOT USE */
+#define _FPU_EXTENDED 0x300	/* libm requires double extended precision.  */
+#define _FPU_DOUBLE   0x200
+#define _FPU_SINGLE   0x0	/* DO NOT USE */
 
 /* rounding control */
 #define _FPU_RC_NEAREST 0x0    /* RECOMMENDED */

-- 
 Andreas Jaeger
  SuSE Labs aj@suse.de
   private aj@arthur.inka.de
    http://www.suse.de/~aj


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