[Bug 1702918] [NEW] [Feature] P9: Quad Precision Floating-point and math library

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Public bug reported:

Power 9 systems has following the IEEE 128-bit floating-point support
and the glibc has this feature will be available in glibc 2.26, to be
released at 07/31/2017.

Our request is to have the glibc version >=2.26 in Ubuntu 17.10.

** Affects: glibc (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Ubuntu on IBM Power Systems Bug Triage (ubuntu-power-triage)
         Status: New


** Tags: architecture-ppc64le bugnameltc-145023 severity-low targetmilestone-inin1710

** Tags added: architecture-ppc64le bugnameltc-145023 severity-low
targetmilestone-inin1710

** Changed in: ubuntu
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu on IBM Power Systems Bug Triage (ubuntu-power-triage)

** Package changed: ubuntu => glibc (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  [Feature] P9: Quad Precision Floating-point and math library

Status in glibc package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Power 9 systems has following the IEEE 128-bit floating-point support
  and the glibc has this feature will be available in glibc 2.26, to be
  released at 07/31/2017.

  Our request is to have the glibc version >=2.26 in Ubuntu 17.10.

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