Minimum floating-point requirements

Rich Felker dalias@aerifal.cx
Mon Feb 17 20:34:00 GMT 2014


On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 05:53:40PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Feb 2014, David Edelsohn wrote:
> 
> > Every ABI has peculiarities and historical baggage. One of the
> > strengths of the GNU Toolchain has been its acceptance of and
> > accommodation of many different ISAs, ABIs and OSes.  That is one of
> 
> Another strength has been its acceptance and accommodation of many 
> different use cases, including ones not conceived of by the ISA, ABI or OS 
> designers, or of interest to people other than the original developers.

Indeed, this is my perspective.

Rich



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