Re: [PATCH] do not assume quads or long doubles

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 09:10:08PM +0200, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> While looking at recent Tru64 smoke failures with pack.t, I noticed
> that the pp_pack.c currently assumed LONG_DOUBLESIZE and Quad_t/Uquad_t.
> Still no fix for the original problem (which seems to be at least partly
> due to buggy gcc optimizer), alas, but in the meanwhile the attached
> patch removes the naughty assumption.

Ooops. I should have read the attached patch before starting work on
what became change 23854, which duplicated what you did. (and more):

http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?patch=23854

pp_pack.o is 10K smaller than when I started. This is good.

Nicholas Clark

• [PATCH] do not assume quads or long doubles by Jarkko Hietaniemi
• Re: [PATCH] do not assume quads or long doubles by Nicholas Clark