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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2015-06-07 17:42:10 -0400 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2015-06-07 17:42:10 -0400 |
| commit | b7ce25dd7b9b021b485b5de41e6e19d6029ba22d (patch) | |
| tree | a1ab5844a46c14b4c642a6a4a5faef07ef21eb2b /INSTALL | |
| parent | 568793b67ae7b3c7362197be564525b48ddb2342 (diff) | |
| download | perl-b7ce25dd7b9b021b485b5de41e6e19d6029ba22d.tar.gz | |
Forgot to adjust this: quadmath is not long doubles.
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ and the long double support. =head3 quadmath -One option for long doubles is that gcc 4.6 and later have a library +One option for more precision is that gcc 4.6 and later have a library called quadmath, which implements the IEEE 754 quadruple precision (128-bit, 113 bits of mantissa) floating point numbers. The library works at least on x86 and ia64 platforms. It may be part of your gcc @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ installation, or you may need to install it separately. With "Configure -Dusequadmath" you can try enabling its use, but note the compiler dependency, you may need to also add "-Dcc=...". At C level the type is called C<__float128> (note, not "long double"), -but Perl source knows it as NV. +but Perl source knows it as NV. (This is not "long doubles".) =head3 Algorithmic Complexity Attacks on Hashes |