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Re: exotic floating point formats test
"Zack Weinberg" <zackw@Stanford.EDU> writes:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 09:13:24AM +0100, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> > pdp10-xkl-tops20 @ a.out
> > 3.25098346789696250776e+01 861042890 d1221451ff ..(. ."..
> > 1.10037057600060735398e-05 701717273 74757677 p.rs tuvw
> GCC doesn't presently support the pdp10, but we might want to at some
> point in the future. I know there was some group working on a modern
> implementation of the architecture and O/S (which might be you, huh?)
XKL, LLC in Redmond are still making PDP-10 clones, and they are
paying me to port GCC. They have signed the copyright papers, so I
hope the port will make it into mainline GCC some day.
> How many bits are in a double? Two 36-bit words?
Yes.
> How many bytes does that translate to?
Eight 9-bit bytes.
> I'm now using strings like '@@IEEEFP' and 'D__float' instead of just
> 'ABCDEF'; a corresponding label for the pdp10 would be nice.
How about this?
5.32201830133125317057e-19 4413a5044 502d3130 D.PD P-10
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