ENH: Improve support for POWER7 and POWER8 machines#8134

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PPC64:ppc64-port

Commits on Oct 6, 2016

Fix PPC64 behavior regarding long double usage
Gustavo Serra Scalet
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Commits on Oct 10, 2016

Fix tests which assume longdouble > 8bytes for PPC64
Gustavo Serra Scalet
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