Re: [PATCH, rs6000] Skip test gfortran.dg/nan_7.f90 for little endian PowerPC

2013-11-27 Thread Jeff Law
On 11/27/13 15:02, Bill Schmidt wrote: Hi, The subject test case uses TRANSFER to do a bitcast from real(16) to integer(16). For IBM long double, this works OK on big endian, but not so well on little endian. The implementation of long double as two 64-bit quantities causes the most significan

[PATCH, rs6000] Skip test gfortran.dg/nan_7.f90 for little endian PowerPC

2013-11-27 Thread Bill Schmidt
Hi, The subject test case uses TRANSFER to do a bitcast from real(16) to integer(16). For IBM long double, this works OK on big endian, but not so well on little endian. The implementation of long double as two 64-bit quantities causes the most significant bits of the value to be in a different