Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: floating-point abuse in 2.1.113 | Date | Wed, 5 Aug 1998 18:36:48 -0700 (PDT) |
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> I don't think this is a big problem anymore with mostly all CPUs supporting > standard IEEE floating point arithmetic. Is there any Linux target that has > non-IEEE FP? I doubt it.
VAX. Also, for example i386 has 80-bit floating point, which no other system have, and I think Alpha and Sparc64 have 128-bit.
> Gcc combines floating point constants in constant expressions, even when > cross compiling.
Are you sure? Or only if the source and target use the same formats?
-hpa
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