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Re: [rfa(arm)/rfc] Eliminate HOST_{FLOAT,DOUBLE,...}_FORMAT
> /* Note that if exponent indicates a NaN, we can't really do anything useful
>> (not knowing if the host has NaN's, or how to build one). So it will
>> end up as an infinity or something close; that is OK. */
>
>
> Perhaps we should allow each native platform to provide a function
> that produces a NaN for every FP type it supports? Then utils.c won't
> need to bother about doing things it doesn't know about.
We've already (almost) got this. sim/common/sim_fpu.[ch] portably
implements exact IEEE floating point (it ``just'' lacks support for 80
floats).
Andrew