Re: long long double on interix

[Markus Duft]

On 09/09/11 08:55, Markus Duft wrote:
> On 09/08/11 08:09, Markus Duft wrote:
>> On 06/10/11 11:37, Bruno Haible wrote:
> [snip]
>>>
>>> You need to find out what is wrong about that type on your platform. If
>>> you're lucky, it's only some library functions (like snprintf) which don't
>>> support it.
>>>
>>> Your best starting point should be to create a gnulib testdir
>>>   $ ./gnulib-tool --create-testdir --dir=/tmp/testdir --with-tests \
>>>     acosl asinl atanl ceill cosl c-strtold expl float floorl fpucw frexpl \
>>>     frexpl-nolibm ftoastr human isfinite isinf isnanl isnanl-nolibm ldexpl \
>>>     ldtoastr logl math printf-frexpl roundl signbit sinl sqrtl tanl truncl \
>>>     vasnprintf
>>> and test that package on your platform. From the list of tests that fail,
>>> you should be able to investigate the precise problems with 'long double'.
>>
>> sorry to revive this old thread. just got some minutes to give the tests a 
>> go :)
>>
> [snip]
> 
> just a heads up:
> 
> it seems that the libc on interix is built with a compiler that has 64 bit 
> long doubles (so it can be none of the bundled compilers, as they all have 12 
> byte long doubles). i'm now looking into patching gcc once more, to have 8 
> byte long doubles too. then all should return back to working.

fixed. i patched gcc to have 64 bit long doubles, and all works like a charm 
now.

sorry for the noise :)

regards, markus

> 
> regards,
> markus
>