On Sat, 20 Jul 2013, Ryan S Arnold wrote: > Libdfp still lacks integration of the libbid backend (to make libdfp > work on x86), and I suspect that might be a prereq for glibc > integration. Tthe libdecnumber back end can be used (with some work)
I don't see why that should be needed, as long as the library simply doesn't build for x86 and doesn't cause build failures, cause __STDC_DEC_FP__ to be defined on x86, etc. - I'd expect it to be built by default for supported architectures (Power and S/390), given that the compiler is recent enough to have DFP support for those architectures, and not at all for others - x86 should be considered much like ARM (an architecture with no DFP support in GCC) in this regard. (Ideally, defining __STDC_WANT_DEC_FP__ would cause an error on unsupported architectures.) -- Joseph S. Myers [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
