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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
May 20, 2003 14:49
Subject:
Re: Solaris longdouble pack.t failures
Message ID:
20030520215308.C1149@plum.flirble.org
OK. Blast from the past, but I'm in mailbox tidy mode:

On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:43:05AM -0500, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:50:23PM -0500, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> > > Solaris 8 with -Duse64bitall -Duselongdouble gave me the following errors
> > > in op/pack.t:
> > > Do these look familiar to anyone?
>  
> > Yes. perl doesn't find a long double modf, does it?
> 
> Excellent diagnosis.  My -lsunmath doesn't have a long double modf().  I
> even found the appropriate comments in the perl.h header file!
> 
> Hmm.  Investigating . . . 

I believe Alan Burlison recently committed a fix for all this, and
long doubles should work perfectly on Solaris. Are you able to check
that this is the case for your system?

Mmm. And can develooper.com thread this properly.... :-)

Nicholas Clark

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