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

Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:55:08 +0200

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On 2026-06-13 12:33, emanuel stiebler wrote:
> 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 :)

40 years ago, sure... Today? I doubt it.

   Johnny

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