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Re: non-IEEE754 float



On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 02:10:19PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
 > On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 08:27:49PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 > > It matters because of whether scalbn == ldexp... (that was how this
 > > came up)
 > 
 > Yeah, but I mean: ignore it untill it matters ;-)

Sure, except that kind of thing is best designed in up front when
rearchitecting.

I think the answer is though: this is netbsd, sometime we'll want to
handle a *really* odd float format.

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost


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