re: One more oddity with gcc and vax floats...

matthew green <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:30:43 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.vax
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> This is just one more problem with non-IEEE floating point. Since this 
> is a battle that cannot be won maybe I should put the dust of the 
> "Emulate IEEE floating point" stuff I once worked on.  Must read up on 
> the IEEE 754 standard first though.

i wouldn't hate this. :-)

it is one of the more annoying, common, problems when trying to
build modern software on vax.

>         movd $0d-Inf,-(%sp)

we should still figure out and fix these though :)


.mrg.