> On Aug 12, 2017, at 10:55, Ryan Libby <rli...@freebsd.org> wrote:
…
> A few possible quick fixes:
>
> - Change the {arm64,riscv,sparc64}/include/float.h LDBL_MAX_EXP
> definitions from (+16384) to 16384.
>
> - Change HALF_LDBL_MAX from
> #define HALF_LDBL_MAX __CONCAT(__CONCAT(0x0.8p, LDBL_MAX_EXP), L)
> to
> #if LDBL_MAX_EXP != 0x4000
> #error "Unsupported long double format"
> #endif
> #define HALF_LDBL_MAX 0x0.8p16384L
>
> - Change the HALF_LDBL_MAX constant to a variable constructed with
> LD80C(), I think with
> LD80C(0x8000000000000000, 16383, 5.9486574767861588254e+4931L)
> but this also requires #error for LDBL_MAX_EXP != 0x4000, so not
> really any better than the above.
>
> I think I will back the patch out for now and go back to review.
The issue is an inconsistency with how LDBL_MAX_EXP is defined in the MD
headers:
$ grep -r LDBL_MAX_EXP sys/sparc64/
sys/sparc64/include/float.h:#define LDBL_MAX_EXP (+16384)
$ grep -r LDBL_MAX_EXP sys/x86/
sys/x86/include/float.h:#define LDBL_MAX_EXP 16384
Cheers,
-Ngie
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