Subject: Re: newlib and long-double question
From: "Sisyphus" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hugh Myers" <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>
Cc: "marco atzeri" <[email-masked]>, "N. C." <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:28:20 +1000
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hugh Myers"

> The OP is trying to build Perl itself, not use it; hence the need for
> long double support functions...

You don't need "long double support functions" to build perl ... unless you 
want to build a perl whose NV is a long double (instead of a double).

Presumably the op wants to build a perl whose NV is a long double so that he 
can make use of that extra precision. Given that he can't build such a perl, 
the next best way of accessing that extra precision he wants is, imo, to use 
Math::MPFR.

Cheers,
Rob 

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