Another test case

David Edelsohn dje@watson.ibm.com
Wed Feb 18 07:43:00 GMT 1998


>>>>> Richard Henderson writes:

Richard> Actually, I see no reason I can think not to just make this
Richard> generic.  Does any currently supported platform _not_ use
Richard> ieee754 single precision numbers as float?

	The POWER architecture only provides double-precision
floating-point.  Values are restricted to single-precision when storing to
memory.  PowerPC adds full single-precision FP.

David



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