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From:
Andy Dougherty
Date:
May 23, 2003 08:15
Subject:
Re: Solaris longdouble pack.t failures
Message ID:
Pine.SOL.4.53.0305231114460.8506@maxwell.phys.lafayette.edu
On Tue, 20 May 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote:

> 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!

> 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?

Yes.  It passes all tests.  Thanks for remembering and following up.

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

-- 
    Andy Dougherty		doughera@lafayette.edu

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