LDC build issues for PowerPC and kfreebsd-{i386,amd64} on Debian

[Kai Nacke via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 10:58:59 UTC, Konstantinos 
Margaritis via digitalmars-d-ldc wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 10:35:22 +0000
> Kai Nacke via digitalmars-d-ldc 
> <digitalmars-d-ldc at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> No. The real type with maximum precision on PowerPC is called 
>> doubledouble. Basically, 2 64-bit doubles are combined to give 
>> roughly the precision of a 128-bit double. In this case the 
>> mantissa has a precision of 106 digits. The assertion simply 
>> states that the case "real.mant_dig==106" is not implemented.
>
> Hi Kai,
>
> Is there any way I can help with that?
>
> Regards
>
> Konstantinos

Hi Konstantinos,

you can have a look at std.math source. I am not an expert in PPC 
double-double type so every help here is welcome.

Regards,
Kai