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

[Andreas Schwab]

Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com> writes:

|> On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 01:32:18AM -0400, N8TM@aol.com wrote:
|> > The same standard (extended double precision) was adopted by Motorola 6888[12]
|> > and Intel.  
|> 
|> Incorrect.  Motorola uses a 96-bit format with different precision.

Incorrect.  The Motorola format is identical (apart from byte order) to
the Intel format except for the minimum denormalized number.

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