[Cfp-interest 1813] Re: Exact subnormal results

[Damian McGuckin]

yOn Wed, 21 Oct 2020, David Hough CFP wrote:

> And we should add double-double, especially on Power, as a non-IEEE format
> in use.

Aren't there some DSP's with 40-bit not-quite IEEE-754 floating point 
still being produced.

I think there was a 44-bit IEEE floating point format defined but nobody 
implemented it.

Regards - Damian

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