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* Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights.Joseph Myers2017-01-011-1/+1
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* Fix default float_t definition (bug 20855).Joseph Myers2016-11-231-0/+65
The default (top-level) version of bits/mathdef.h defines float_t to double. It is used on ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, all of which define FLT_EVAL_METHOD to 0, so float_t should be float (and C11 requires a certain correspondence between these typedefs and FLT_EVAL_METHOD values). I proposed fixing this default in <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-01/msg00499.html>, with no objections from architecture maintainers, and this patch makes that fix. As noted in the NEWS entry added, this might affect the ABIs of non-glibc libraries (ImageMagick has been mentioned in gcc-patches discussion of the S/390 case - which is unaffected by this patch), but as noted in my previous message, affected libraries would have problems with -mfpmath=sse anyway on 32-bit x86. A (compilation) testcase is added to verify the required correspondence of typedefs to FLT_EVAL_METHOD values. This test is built with -fexcess-precision=standard to avoid any issues with GCC 7 on S/390 providing a more accurate FLT_EVAL_METHOD definition in the default (no excess precision) mode. (This will also be usable to test a fix for the recently reported bug about these typedefs on x86_64 -mfpmath=387, as architecture-specific tests can be added that It is entirely possible that the fixed default makes some architecture-specific versions of bits/mathdef.h semantically equivalent to the default version and so no longer required. I don't intend to investigate that separately from the refactoring I proposed in <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-11/msg00745.html>, which will create as few header variants as possible for each group of definitions. Tested (compilation only) with build-many-glibcs.py. [BZ #20855] * bits/mathdef.h (float_t): Define to float. * math/test-flt-eval-method.c: New file. * math/Makefile (tests): Add test-flt-eval-method. (CFLAGS-test-flt-eval-method.c): New variable.