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------- Comment From drbrent at us.ibm.com 2017-07-18 15:58 EDT-------
Canonical - will the move to 2.26 happen with 17.10? Any concerns here?

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

Status in The Ubuntu-power-systems project:
  New
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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