Re: [Numpy-discussion] question about long doubles on ppc64el

2017-01-16 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 10:00 PM, Thomas Caswell wrote: > Folks, > > Over at h5py we are trying to get a release out and have discovered (via > debian) that on ppc64el there is an apparent disagreement between the size > of a native long double according to hdf5 and

Re: [Numpy-discussion] question about long doubles on ppc64el

2017-01-16 Thread Charles R Harris
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 11:00 PM, Thomas Caswell wrote: > Folks, > > Over at h5py we are trying to get a release out and have discovered (via > debian) that on ppc64el there is an apparent disagreement between the size > of a native long double according to hdf5 and numpy. >

Re: [Numpy-discussion] question about long doubles on ppc64el

2017-01-16 Thread Jens Nielsen
According to https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy-dev/user/basics.types.html#extended-precision numpy long doubles are typically zero padded to 128 bits on 64 bit systems could that be the reason? On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 at 07:00 Thomas Caswell wrote: > Folks, > > Over at h5py we

[Numpy-discussion] question about long doubles on ppc64el

2017-01-15 Thread Thomas Caswell
Folks, Over at h5py we are trying to get a release out and have discovered (via debian) that on ppc64el there is an apparent disagreement between the size of a native long double according to hdf5 and numpy. For all of the gorey details see: https://github.com/h5py/h5py/issues/817 . In short,