port-pmax: Re: (mips): egcs on -current miscompiles strtod.c

Subject: Re: (mips): egcs on -current miscompiles strtod.c
To: Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: port-pmax
Date: 02/05/1999 12:07:56

hi Simon,

Niklas Hallqvist's suggestion works for me.  Using a union to extract
the hi or low parts of a 64-bit input arg (rather than doing pointer
casts which cause warnings) fixes the problem.
Why dont we do that instead?