Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 00:57:09 -0700
> Cc: Tom Tromey <address@hidden>, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>,
>       Richard Stallman <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> No further comment on this, and I went with (3) and installed into master the 
> attached patch to do something along those lines on platforms that have 
> ieee754.h (mostly GNUish platforms, I expect). Other platforms are unaffected.

Thanks, but isn't there a way to test whether a platform supports IEEE
FP representation except by looking for ieee754.h?  AFAICS, that
header just defines a few data structures that any IEEE-compliant
platform should be able to work with.  So limiting this to glibc
platforms is too restrictive, I think.