[Numpy-discussion] long double woes on win32

[Charles R Harris]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 12:47 AM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Charles R Harris
> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Doesn't mingw use the MSVC library?
>
> Yes, it does. But long double is both a compiler and library issue.
> sizeof(long double) is defined by the compiler, and it is different
> with mingw and visual studio ATM. I don't know what the correct
> behavior should be, but the fact is that they are different.
>
> > are the same type, so this seems to be a bug in mingw. I suppose numpy
> could
> > detect this situation and define the types to be identical, but if this
> is
> > impractical, then perhaps the best thing to do is issue an error message.
>
> It is impractical in the short term because defining SIZE_LONG_DOUBLE
> to 8 breaks the mingw build, and fixing it would require fixing the
> whole math function configuration (the whole HAVE_LONGDOUBLE_FUNCS and
> co mess). That's highly non trivial code because of the tens of
> different possible configurations, and is fundamental to the whole
> numpy, since it affects the math functions effectively used.
>
> > There's isn't much you can do about long doubles while maintaining MSVC
> > compatibility.
>
> Does that mean you are in favor of letting things the way they are now
> for 1.2, and fix this on 1.3/1.2.1 ?
>
> cheers,
>
> David
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