wish: optimize (x > 0.) floating point comparison.

Joe Buck jbuck@synopsys.com
Thu Sep 24 10:37:00 GMT 1998


> On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 04:48:35PM -0400, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
> > BTW, there's another issue, which cuts both ways: FP numbers in the
> > FPU have more precision and range (64/15) than FP numbers in memory
> > (52/11).
> 
> Keep that intel-centric abortion to yourself.  Sparc doesn't do that.

The Motorola 68000 architecture has the same problem.






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