Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 00:43:42 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: rittle@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lack of real long double support Message-ID: <20021025.004342.06455314.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <200210240833.g9O8XB1W033884@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com> References: <20021020025400.GA13776@xor.obsecurity.org> <20021023123653.A39814@espresso.q9media.com> <200210240833.g9O8XB1W033884@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com>
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Loren James Rittle <rittle@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com> writes:
: Yet, the FP hardware is actually configured by default to provide
: `long double' as:
:
: #define LDBL_MANT_DIG 53
: #define LDBL_MIN_EXP (-16381)
: #define LDBL_MAX_EXP 16384
:
: Indeed, FP code using long double generated by gcc 2.95.X, installed
: as the FreeBSD 4 system compiler, uses the full exponent range of
: -16381 to 16384. However, printf(), etc loses on that exponent range
: and reports Inf. I suspect this is why the system header misreports
: the FP hardware, thus the header describes the largest printable long
: double value, not the largest that could be held in a calculation.
I have patches to fix these constants, but not to fix printf, and co,
to really support the full precision of long double. Even NetBSD
doesn't do that.
: Anyways, two questions for FreeBSD maintainers. How should gcc, as
: provided from the FSF, describe the long double FP format for
: FreeBSD/i386 4.x? Shall we assume that no changes for FreeBSD 5.x
: will occur?
No. You should assume that for i386, at least, that long double will
have the right LDBL_ constants. I've had them in my local tree for
about 3 months now and just haven't found the time to commit to
-current. I'll find the time right now.
Warner
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