Subject: Re: floating point
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-pdp10
Date: 06/15/2002 20:37:06
>
> This is another interesting piece: having just read over much of
> lib/libm/noieee_src/ for my previous message, I note that it seems to
> assume that doubles are 64 bits long; it also seems to have scattered
> throughout the assumption that the VAX and the Tahoe are the only
> non-IEEE machines. (This really should be tested once in mathimpl.h
> and a define created for the rest of the code to use....)
>
That's simple: The non-IEEE is just imported from 4.4BSD and made
suitable for NetBSD. I did it when I started with the vax port ~8
years ago, and there has been no need to update it (until now :-)
-- Ragge