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Subject: Re: EPICS 3.14.12.3 Build Problems with the new Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
From: mrkraimer <[email protected]>
To: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 13:14:08 -0400




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-------- Original message --------
From: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>
Date: 2016/04/27 11:28 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: EPICS 3.14.12.3 Build Problems with the new Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

On 04/27/2016 10:06 AM, Michael Davidsaver wrote:
> So strictly speaking Base should never have depended on this behavior.
> In fact beginning with Base 3.15.0.1, and soon to be included in
> 3.14.12.5, it does not.
>
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~epics-core/epics-base/3.14/revision/12486
>
> Given that newer versions of Base will build, and that this change has
> already found its way into an Ubuntu LTS release, I don't think it's
> worth pursuing another change to glibc.

According to the Linux manpage, finite() was originally a BSD
floating-point classification function which takes a double. There were
equivalents available for float and long double with different names.
All the epicsMath.h code is trying to do is ensure that we provide a
definition of finite(), using isfinite() where it exists. I see no
reason to check GLIBC versions, we don't need it to be that efficient.

I am committing this change to the 3.14 branch, so it will appear in the
forthcoming 3.14.12.6 release:

#ifdef isfinite
#  undef finite
-#  define finite(x) isfinite(x)
+#  define finite(x) isfinite((double)x)
#endif

- Andrew

--
There are only two hard problems in distributed systems:
  2. Exactly-once delivery
  1. Guaranteed order of messages
  2. Exactly-once delivery
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