Re: floating-point abuse in 2.1.113

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Thu, 6 Aug 1998 10:36:59 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > 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.

Wrong. M68k also has 80 bit FP.

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium




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