Re: +-Inf and NaN

On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 2:06 PM Henry Baker <[email protected]> wrote:

> Re: hardware:
>
> Hmmm...   In just the Intel processor category, there are probably
> millions of combinations
> of HW specs, so 'close to the HW' is exceedingly ill-defined.  E.g., I
> understand that Windows-11
> will no longer boot on Intel HW that doesn't have a popcount instruction
> ?!?
> ...


Modulo bugs (have there been any recent ones?), I believe that the IEEE 754
floating point arithmetic is consistent to the bit across processors. There
might be differences in how signaling NaNs behave, but that's not relevant
here.

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