[parisc-linux] Re: strtold

[Grant Grundler]

On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 06:42:30PM -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
...
> > I've given up hope that HP will release their IEEE long double emulation
> > code for PA-RISC.  Although I don't have any hard evidence of bugs in it,
> > there is the suggestion from the ada testsuite run under hpux that there
> > may be bugs in the rounding and exception support.
> 
> I agree, I don't think it will ever be released. If it is released then
> we'll jigger it out some other way :)

Me too. But I wouldn't worry about an ABI event too much.
As long as the only dependency is debian/gentoo packages,
then I think we can tolerate an ABI event like this on the
next OS release if necessary.

grant