[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#430296: 64-bit GCC and QHull

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Brad Barber <bradb at shore.net> [2007-06-24 16:56]:

> At 02:37 AM 6/24/2007, you wrote:
> >I need your advice on a issue recently raised in Debian.  In a recent
> >version of GCC, the "long double" type changed from 64 to 128 bits on some
> >architectures.  A mass-bug filing had place in Debian and the QHull was
> >among the targeted packages [1].  I think that, in the case of QHull, it is
> >a false positive, probably triggered by some script that had seen:
> >
> >$ cd /usr/include/qhull
> >$ grep -r "long double" .
> >./user.h: You may use 'long double', but many format statements need to be changed
> >./user.h: and you may need a 'long double' square root routine.  S. Grundmann
> >
> >[1] http://bugs.debian.org/430296
> >
> >Could you please confirm to me that the QHull API does not depend on the
> >"long double" type, such that I can close the said bug report?
> 
> Agreed.   Qhull does not use "long double".  

Thanks for you prompt reply.  I am hereby closing this bug report.

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Rafael