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On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 01:29, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes: > > Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> writes: > > > I believe it's desirable to (at least have the option to) use the > > > [PDP-10] floating-point formats. > > You can certainly do that if you want to write all the necessary > > code. That is, there is lots of code that assumes IEEE format, yes. > > But there is nothing preventing you from writing alternate code for > > other formats. I don't agree with this at all. Having one libc for all architectures also includes providing comparable semantics which means IEEE. Nothing else is acceptable since you cannot run any program unmodified. Additional floating-point formats can only be provided in addition to IEEE. -- ---------------. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \ ,-------------------' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `------------------------
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