volunteer needed to complete shadow header work

[Steven King]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> 
> Until recently there was no other way to ensure correct
> initialization.  Now we have hexadecimal floating-point numbers.  But
> does the C++ compiler understand them?

  I dont understand.  The compiler (c && c++) understands long double
constants; ie

long double l = 3.36210314311209350626e-4932L

does the right thing for i386.

  Why would we need hexadecimal floating point or anything else?

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Steven King
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