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-rw-r--r--tests/test-frexpl.c8
-rw-r--r--tests/test-printf-frexpl.c9
3 files changed, 21 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c9fa72a4fe..a159fc63ec 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2007-06-04 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+ Avoid test failures on some PowerPC platforms.
+ * tests/test-printf-frexpl.c (MIN_NORMAL_EXP, MIN_SUBNORMAL_EXP):
+ Define differently for PowerPC.
+ * tests/test-frexpl.c (MIN_NORMAL_EXP): Likewise.
+ Reported by Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>.
+
2007-06-02 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Fix test-stdint failure on FreeBSD/ia64.
diff --git a/tests/test-frexpl.c b/tests/test-frexpl.c
index 93cfa14434..f1446fe07d 100644
--- a/tests/test-frexpl.c
+++ b/tests/test-frexpl.c
@@ -40,10 +40,14 @@
while (0)
/* On MIPS IRIX machines, LDBL_MIN_EXP is -1021, but the smallest reliable
- exponent for 'long double' is -964. For exponents below that, the
- precision may be truncated to the precision used for 'double'. */
+ exponent for 'long double' is -964. Similarly, on PowerPC machines,
+ LDBL_MIN_EXP is -1021, but the smallest reliable exponent for 'long double'
+ is -968. For exponents below that, the precision may be truncated to the
+ precision used for 'double'. */
#ifdef __sgi
# define MIN_NORMAL_EXP (LDBL_MIN_EXP + 57)
+#elif defined __ppc || defined __ppc__ || defined __powerpc || defined __powerpc__
+# define MIN_NORMAL_EXP (LDBL_MIN_EXP + 53)
#else
# define MIN_NORMAL_EXP LDBL_MIN_EXP
#endif
diff --git a/tests/test-printf-frexpl.c b/tests/test-printf-frexpl.c
index fe481eec85..2c1b1eb33d 100644
--- a/tests/test-printf-frexpl.c
+++ b/tests/test-printf-frexpl.c
@@ -39,11 +39,16 @@
while (0)
/* On MIPS IRIX machines, LDBL_MIN_EXP is -1021, but the smallest reliable
- exponent for 'long double' is -964. For exponents below that, the
- precision may be truncated to the precision used for 'double'. */
+ exponent for 'long double' is -964. Similarly, on PowerPC machines,
+ LDBL_MIN_EXP is -1021, but the smallest reliable exponent for 'long double'
+ is -968. For exponents below that, the precision may be truncated to the
+ precision used for 'double'. */
#ifdef __sgi
# define MIN_NORMAL_EXP (LDBL_MIN_EXP + 57)
# define MIN_SUBNORMAL_EXP MIN_NORMAL_EXP
+#elif defined __ppc || defined __ppc__ || defined __powerpc || defined __powerpc__
+# define MIN_NORMAL_EXP (LDBL_MIN_EXP + 53)
+# define MIN_SUBNORMAL_EXP MIN_NORMAL_EXP
#else
# define MIN_NORMAL_EXP LDBL_MIN_EXP
# define MIN_SUBNORMAL_EXP (LDBL_MIN_EXP - 100)