Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se> writes:
> The VAX and PDP11 store them in the same way, yes. But that's not 
> relevant; libm don't do any byte assumptions about the floating point
> format (do anyone ever do that???)

I've heard glibc does.

> Another interesting thing would be to use the almost-IEEE G format,

You can try passing "-mgfloat" go gcc, but note that the floating-
point support isn't well tested and may be buggy.

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