Adam Nemet <ane...@caviumnetworks.com> writes: > Ian Lance Taylor writes: >> I'm not entirely sure, but I don't think Jim said the opposite. He said >> that the way truncate works is machine dependent. I said that the >> output of truncate is machine independent. Since truncate is only >> defined for fixed-point modes, I think both statements are true. > > OK but in that way every operation is machine dependent not just truncate.
Yes. > BTW, why is being fixed-point relevant here? Because truncating from DFmode to SFmode really is machine dependent, since it depends on the floating point representation being used. We use float_truncate for that. Ian
