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

On 6/10/26 09:31, John Klos wrote:
>>>>  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. :-)
>>
>> I'm not convinced. Starting to do all FP math in software will be 
>> costly, on a machine that is already suffering heavly with performance 
>> issues.
> 
> Why couldn't hardware floating point do much of the work?

   I was about to ask the same thing.  Let the hardware do the FP in VAX 
format, and the emulation would just be a thin translation layer.  There 
would be some edge cases like NaN etc, but other than that, it's not 
that hard to do.

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA