[parisc-linux] Re: strtold

[Carlos O'Donell]

On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 02:58:40PM -0500, John David Anglin wrote:
> With libc6 2.3.5-8:
> 
> #include <stdlib.h>
> int
> main ()
> {
>   printf ("%Lf\n", strtold ("1", NULL));
>     return 0;
> }
> 
> dave at gsyprf11:~/gcc_test$ gcc -o ld1 ld1.c
> dave at gsyprf11:~/gcc_test$ ./ld1
> 0.000000

strtold will never work, gcc and libc have different sizes for long
double. This is probably a side-effect of this.

If we really want long double to work we need to do something like set
it to be the same as double.

128-bit long double is just going to be a pain, and I don't know how
well the 80-bit long double from IBM supports IEEE modes.

c.