[RFH] A simple way to figure out the number of bits used by a long double

[Andreas Schwab]

Paolo Carlini <paolo.carlini@oracle.com> writes:

> By the way, this doesn't make any sense to me: I don't see what the CPU
> gains from having padding between mantissa and exponent, or different
> bytes of the mantissa.

It's a fact of life.  I didn't design the motorola floating point format.

> If you really want to help the C++ library, please give me a a link to
> the Intel documentation explaining this

See libiberty/floatformat.c.

Andreas.

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