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Re: More support for non-standard IEEE float variants

To: Richard Sandiford <rsandifo at redhat dot com>
Subject: Re: More support for non-standard IEEE float variants
From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 23:21:24 -0800
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0102221155470.8629-100000@tantra.cambridge.redhat.com>

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 06:11:41PM +0000, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> I'm trying to use a 32-bit float format that is based on the IEEE one, but
> which doesn't support NaNs or denormals.  The NaN exponent can be used for
> normal numbers instead.

I don't like using just the NaN trigger for this.  You need to know that
there are no infinities either.  I liked the LARGEST_EXPONENT_NORMAL patch
that came across the internal list.

r~

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