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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.