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

[Paolo Carlini]

On 02/26/2010 05:36 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> See libiberty/floatformat.c.
>   
Ok, thanks. Actually, it looks like there is *no* padding in the middle
for the Intel x87 format I truly care about:

const struct floatformat floatformat_i387_ext =
{
  floatformat_little, 80, 0, 1, 15, 0x3fff, 0x7fff, 16, 64,

I read it as meaning 0 sign, 1-15 exponent, 16-79 mantissa.

But really we don't want to deal with all those special cases for other
formats, for now at least. Too bad.

Paolo.