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

emanuel stiebler <[email protected]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:33:52 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.vax
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-06-11 03:54, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> But honestly, people who are into crazy specific math issues wouldn't be 
> trying to run things on a VAX to start with. So I do not expect that 
> anyone cares about those last few digits. But of course test software 
> will care, and the point of getting IEEE "compatibility" would be so 
> software works, so I guess we'd have to get that working.

We had 128 bit floats on a VAX, so I'm sure somebody running funny 
things on it :)