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Re: RFC Migrating PowerPC to IEEE 128-bit Floating Point
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Steven Munroe <munroesj at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich dot Weigand at de dot ibm dot com>, Michael Meissner <meissner at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>, <jakub at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 09:37:56 +0200
- Subject: Re: RFC Migrating PowerPC to IEEE 128-bit Floating Point
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Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:
> but I strongly suspect that some of the code in
> sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96 does not handle the m68k variant fully
> correctly.)
m68k uses only a few of them, and I don't think any of them is testing
for subnormal values.
Andreas.
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