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Re: New gnulib wrappers with glibc 2.21.
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 17:54:44 +0000
- Subject: Re: New gnulib wrappers with glibc 2.21.
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On Wed, 11 Feb 2015, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:
>
> > (The following concerns x86_64 / x86, without having checked what would be
> > appropriate for ia64 or m68k.)
>
> FWIW, m68k doesn't have pseudo-denormals.
What about unnormals (exponent in the normal range, but first mantissa bit
0)? I don't think the ldbl-96 code generally does anything consistent
with those (though much of it isn't used on m68k anyway) - i.e. they act
like trap representations at present.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com