Ping Re: Implement C _FloatN, _FloatNx types [version 5]

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Fri Aug 5 00:12:00 GMT 2016


On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, Michael Meissner wrote:

> Or is the check at the end whether ieee_bits > (for extended tests) or == (for
> normal tests) sufficient to say that SFmode, DFmode, really is IEEE?

Yes.  That's the semantics of ieee_bits as detailed in the comment in 
real.h.  Note that the following are not IEEE and so are not candidates 
for these types: SPU single precision; IBM long double; m68k extended; VAX 
formats; ARM alternative half-precision; PDP-11 formats.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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