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Re: PATCH: Spell exp2l correctly
- From: Steve Munroe <sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:13:30 -0600
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Spell exp2l correctly
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote on 03/28/2005 02:43:45 PM:
> Ok, since long-double-fcts is only set in a few configurations, it turns
> out to be pretty easy to tell which ones might be affected. i.e., it's
> only those few long-double-fcts=yes platforms that had it correct. So,
> it's straightforward to add a Versions fragment for each of those few
and
> update the generic one used by all other configurations. I've committed
> changes to do this. But I have not actually done a build on any of the
> platforms on which sysdeps/generic/w_exp2.c was being used to define
exp2l
> (or fail to).
>
powepc64 is about be a long-double-fcts=yes platform. I believe Dwayne
submitted the patches for the powerpc64 long double support last week.
This of course is dependent on a general solution to versioning the two
sizes of long double within glibc. Jakub has proposed a mechanism/patch to
do this but I believe this is still unresolved.
Steven J. Munroe
Linux on Power Toolchain Architect
IBM Corporation, Linux Technology Center