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Re: wish: optimize (x > 0.) floating point comparison.
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: wish: optimize (x > 0.) floating point comparison.
- From: "Charles M. Hannum" <root at ihack dot net>
- Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 10:03:54 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
> On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 01:32:18AM -0400, N8TM@aol.com wrote:
> > The same standard (extended double precision) was adopted by Motorola 6888[12]
> > and Intel.
>
> Incorrect. Motorola uses a 96-bit format with different precision.
Don't let the 96-bit length fool you. It's really the same format,
but with 16 bits wasted (for alignment purposes, I assume).