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Re: New gnulib wrappers with glibc 2.21.
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:00:48 +0100
- Subject: Re: New gnulib wrappers with glibc 2.21.
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Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2015, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
>> Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:
>>
>> > (The following concerns x86_64 / x86, without having checked what would be
>> > appropriate for ia64 or m68k.)
>>
>> FWIW, m68k doesn't have pseudo-denormals.
>
> What about unnormals (exponent in the normal range, but first mantissa bit
> 0)?
The 68881 normalizes them before any use.
Andreas.
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