Feb 26, 2010 01:43:15 PM, sch...@linux-m68k.org wrote: Paolo Carlini writes: > I'm tired. Anyway, I meant of course the size of the *data bits*, using > your terminology. For *some* formats, like x87, where there are no > holes, no padding bits in the middle of the representation, that is all > I would need. In the meanwhile, Andreas made me notice that > unfortunately this is not the general case. Thanks again about that. Even the x87 floating point format has don't-care bits in some cases. Andreas. Is this when denormalizing? Ed -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."