Re: One more oddity with gcc and vax floats...

[Dave McGuire <mcguire%neurotica.com@localhost>]

On 6/10/26 09:31, John Klos wrote:
> > > >  This is just one more problem with non-IEEE floating point. Since this
> > > >  is a battle that cannot be won maybe I should put the dust of the
> > > >  "Emulate IEEE floating point" stuff I once worked on.  Must read up on
> > > >  the IEEE 754 standard first though.
> > >
> > >  i wouldn't hate this. :-)
> >
> > I'm not convinced. Starting to do all FP math in software will be 
> > costly, on a machine that is already suffering heavly with performance 
> > issues.
>
> Why couldn't hardware floating point do much of the work?

  I was about to ask the same thing.  Let the hardware do the FP in VAX 
format, and the emulation would just be a thin translation layer.  There 
would be some edge cases like NaN etc, but other than that, it's not 
that hard to do.

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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