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Re: floating point woes on i386
gdt%lexort.com@localhost (Greg Troxel) writes:
>Does our amd64 build avoid the use of extended (80-bit) doubles?
It doesn't use them.
>Assuming no and no, do you understand why the IEEE754-expected 53 bits
>is found on amd64? Is that just happenstance of how the test is
>compiled?
i386 uses 387 math, and that has 80bit registers. But in memory
it's reduced to 64bit. That's what confuses paranoia.
amd64 uses sse math with 64bit registers.
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