ppc float.h

[Andreas Tobler]

Hi Peter,

Peter Grehan wrote:

>> can somebody explain why we have these defines in 
>> sys/powerpc/include/float.h ?
> 
>  Have a look at
> 
> http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=132421

Hm, meanwhile OS-X has 128-bit long double...

>  Basically, the ABI was switched from 128 bit long doubles to
> 64. Not exactly SVR4 compliant but then no-one else is.

And there is no need to go back to 128-bit? No benefit?
What would have to be done? Libc? I know the compiler issue.
Would this break too much?

Thanks,
Andreas