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Re: [WIP] Fixing ulp near zero.
- From: Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal dot cx>
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:49:28 -0400
- Subject: Re: [WIP] Fixing ulp near zero.
- References: <5178AC1D dot 90001 at redhat dot com> <Pine dot LNX dot 4 dot 64 dot 1304251455170 dot 8948 at digraph dot polyomino dot org dot uk> <517962E0 dot 4030108 at redhat dot com>
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 01:07:44PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> Is it a bug that nextafter behaves as-if the mantissa were fixed
> precision on IBM long double?
I would say it's a bug that IBM long double is supported at all. Archs
using 128-bit long double should be fixed, like ppc was, to use IEEE
quad.
Rich