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Re: floating point war casualty list

From: Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic dot com>
To: zack at codesourcery dot com
Cc: steve at moshier dot net, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 16:33:49 -0400
Subject: Re: floating point war casualty list
References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0205271636230.11946-100000@moshier.net><20020528043135.GM24897@codesourcery.com>

>>>>> "Zack" == Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:
 Zack> That leaves the i370 (IBM_FLOAT_FORMAT), pdp11
 Zack> (VAX_FLOAT_FORMAT, or should be), and ns32k (no idea) as
 Zack> potential problems.  Can people familiar with these targets say
 Zack> what the situation is?

pdp11 in the current tree does not specify float format, and indeed
the results that produces are definitely wrong.  I set it to
VAX_FLOAT_FORMAT and that produces the right answers -- at least it
matches for 0.5 and 0.25 and 10.0 and the log10(2) that Stephen
pointed to.

     paul

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