Re: Octave 3.0.1 Scientific Linux 5.1 (RHAT) build failure

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> wrote:

> On  9-May-2008, Francesco Potorti` wrote:
> 
> | >If no one runs on a 64-bit platform none of the bugs of 64-bit systems
> | >will be found.
> | 
> | I am running a dual core amd64 with Debian testing, and I see no
> | problems with Octave.  Isn't that built with 64 bits?
> 
> Unless you built it with the --enable-64 configure option, then no,
> not really.  With --enable-64, array sizes and indices are represented
> as 64-bit integers.  Without it, they are still just 32-bit integers.
> 
[snip]

Does --enable-64 also somehow enable long doubles ?

I.e. does it help to get better numeric accuracy ?

Thanks,
  Sergei.


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