Re: PDP-10 port

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>]

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.

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