On Thu, 20 May 1999, Richard Earnshaw wrote:

> Fast floating point would be good, but only if it is IEEE compliant.  
> Anything else is going to cause problems for a lot of others.  Don't 
> forget that understanding of the IEEE data format is embedded deeply 
> within many programs and libraries (starting with, but not limited to 
> libc, gcc, gas, gdb ...)

Oooohhhh, I don't know about that.  The NetBSD/vax port uses native VAX
floating point operations, and they're not IEEE compliant.  They're VAX
D_float format.   There's the odd problem here and there, but it doesn't
wreak great havoc.

-brian.
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