From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/12211 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Szabolcs Nagy Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Feasability of patching libm with OS X 10.5.8 libc for IBM double-double in PPC Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 18:53:33 +0100 Message-ID: <20171206175333.GC15263@port70.net> References: Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1512582825 21040 195.159.176.226 (6 Dec 2017 17:53:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 17:53:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.0 (2016-04-01) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-12227-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Wed Dec 06 18:53:41 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by blaine.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eMdt6-0005N9-PZ for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Dec 2017 18:53:40 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 19554 invoked by uid 550); 6 Dec 2017 17:53:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Original-Received: (qmail 19534 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2017 17:53:45 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: musl@lists.openwall.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:12211 Archived-At: * ardi [2017-12-06 18:23:33 +0100]: > Said this, I need IBM double-double in PowerPC targets (using clang as > compiler), and I'd like to use musl because of its well written code. is this because of some abi compat issue? or some source code depends on double-double semantics? in musl you can do various hacks to make most things work, but complete support is non-trivial so if you can work around the double-double requirement that may be better.