[Cfp-interest 1812] Re: Exact subnormal results
David Hough CFP
pcfp at oakapple.net
Wed Oct 21 21:45:19 PDT 2020
> Not sure if there are any other non-IEEEE-754 FP still in use.
There are CDC 6600's, VAXen, and DEC-10's that can still be booted up
in museums. At the time C was invented, it was intended to be
portable to all of them. Whether there are any non-IEEE systems for
which C programs are still being updated and recompiled - you might be
right that it's only Z system hex. Perhaps "non-IEEE" includes some
of the AI/ML systems that have non-IEEE formats as well as IEEE.
And we should add double-double, especially on Power, as a non-IEEE format
in use.
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