Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-31,: Re: floating-point abuse in 2.1.113

# Re: floating-point abuse in 2.1.113

Jakub Jelinek (jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz)
Thu, 6 Aug 1998 10:38:06 +0200 (MET DST)

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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.

Sparc32 has 128-bit as well. But both 80-bit and 128-bit floating point are
IEEE as well... So a generic emulator could help.

Cheers,
Jakub
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