Message-ID: <000b01c337f5$46274600$0100a8c0@acp42g>
From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
References: <200306211241 DOT h5LCfqo3019787 AT speedy DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Subject: Re: LIBM patch for GCC 3.3 - math changes
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 23:01:46 +1000
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> > > > + typedef union
> > > > + {
> > > > +   float f;
> > > > +   long  l;
> > > > + } _float_long_union;
> > >
> > > Why aren't you using float_t here?
> >
> > The math code uses float (doesn't use float_t) and I thought that this
may
> > be the most appropriate place to put this union as the math code in
allot of
> > the places has ieee prefixes in the function names.
> >
> > If this is wrong then please let me know where I should put the
definition.
>
> Ok. But you'll need to add _float_union or something for strtof.c
> later on, if I'm not totally mistaken.
Thanks for this. I should modify it as well to use a union in ieee.h instead
of defining the union locally. Looks like I will need to search for similar
changes in libc that have been done.

I will leave this until after I finish the C++ build patch for GCC 3.3.
Hopefully I should be able to do this sometime next week.

Andrew