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Re: infinity != infinity
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: bonzini at gnu dot org, schwab at suse dot de
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, joern dot rennecke at superh dot com,paolo dot bonzini at polimi dot it
- Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 06:39:02 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: infinity != infinity
> The 8087 (and all of it successors) did too, and it is where IEEE itself
> originated. GCC's fp-bit.c disagrees as well. I don't know of any
> processor that implements your scheme -- your analysis is sound, agreed.
So that's decisive in my view. If the standard can be read in a way that
is incompatible with the 8087 and 68881, then it is a bug in the wording
of the standard.