Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:43:19 +1000 (EST) From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Andreas Tobler <andreast-list@fgznet.ch> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ppc float.h Message-ID: <20081115084319.ELQ11380@dommail.onthenet.com.au>
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Hi Andreas,
>Coming back to myself. Doesn't matter if going to 128-bit
long double or
>not. The LDBL_MIN/MAX/EPSILON definitions in float.h are wrong.
>
>If you do a printf ("%Lf\n", LDBL_EPSILON); you run into a
compiler warning:
>
>warning: format '%Lf' expects type 'long double', but
argument 2 has
>type 'double'
>
>So to fix that I propose the appended patch.
>
>Thanks,
>Andreas
>
>P.S, making the compiler work with 128-bit long-double is
still possible.
I'm way out of my depth here. You probably want to speak to
David Schulz (das@freebsd.org) - he's the floating point goto guy.
later,
Peter.
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