On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 16:41 +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote: > I've recently moved to a 64-bit architecture (x86_64) and yesterday I > encountered some problems building the generics branch with ecj on kaffe > and Debian GNU/Linux. Namely, the MIN_DOUBLE value is not recognised as > valid. Using parseDouble on this value shows that the fdlibm > implementation of strtod reports an underflow and 0 is returned. > > This lead to me finding the following post: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath/2004-01/msg00057.html > > Applying this patch solves the problem and the right value is returned. > Does anyone know what the state of this patch is, and why it wasn't > applied? It does solve the problem in this case, but I don't know how > it fares in general. Any comments, and testing on some other platforms > would be much appreciated. > > FWIW, the conversion also works with the platform strtod, so this is > also an option (although again I don't know how general this is, and it > has been disabled for cases where KISSME_LINUX_USER is not defined). > > Thanks, > _______________________________________________ > Classpath-patches mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath-patches
Is there any update on this? -- Andrew :-) Please avoid sending me Microsoft Office (e.g. Word, PowerPoint) attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html No software patents in Europe -- http://nosoftwarepatents.com "Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics' respond those who don't want to learn." -- Richard Stallman Escape the Java Trap with GNU Classpath! http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html public class gcj extends Freedom implements Java { ... }
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