[PATCH v3 1/2] x86 long double: Consider pseudo numbers as signaling

Andreas Schwab schwab@linux-m68k.org
Thu Dec 31 23:23:50 GMT 2020


On Dez 31 2020, Joseph Myers wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Dec 2020, Siddhesh Poyarekar via Libc-alpha wrote:
>
>> diff --git a/sysdeps/generic/nan-pseudo-number.h b/sysdeps/generic/nan-pseudo-number.h
>
> I don't think this belongs in sysdeps/generic/.  The "pseudo-number" 
> concept is specific to the ldbl-96 format; a "generic" header is really 
> something specific to ldbl-96 and so should go in sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96/ 
> instead.  (x86 and m68k have different rules regarding what encodings are 
> valid.

m68k doesn't have the concept of pseudo-nan and pseudo-inf, as it treats
the explicit integer bit in those formats as don't-care.

Andreas.

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