Recommended update for libdfp

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2020:2957-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 Business Critical Linux 15-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.1

An update that contains five features can now be installed.

Description:

This update for libdfp fixes the following issues:

libdfp was upgraded to version 1.0.15 (jsc#SLE-13839, jsc#SLE-14885, jsc#IBM-704, jsc#SLE-15622, jsc#SLE-14722, jsc#IBM-703, jsc#ECO-2376)

  • Add support for arch13/z15 s390 CPUs
  • Integrate libdecnumber into build
  • Fix spurious integer overflow warnings
  • sin/cos: more correctly compute the requested value
  • Fix and test ldexp
  • Add native expd128, logd128
  • Add fminmagN function as TS18661 recommends

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2020-2957=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2 (ppc64le s390x)
    • libdfp-debugsource-1.0.15-3.3.1
    • libdfp1-1.0.15-3.3.1
    • libdfp1-debuginfo-1.0.15-3.3.1
    • libdfp-devel-1.0.15-3.3.1

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