Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > Leopold Toetsch wrote: > >>Marcus Thiesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>Hi, >> >> >>>The results of the test suite are here: >>>http://www.thiesen.org/parrottest/vax-openbsd-3.5-beta.txt >> >> >>Doesn't look too bad. There are oviously problems with floats. All >>native_pbc/number tests are failing. Also type conversions are broken. >> >>To fix this we need information about VAX native data types and float >>format internals. > > > http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/73final/4515/4515pro_013.html > http://owen.sj.ca.us/rkowen/howto/fltpt/ > http://home.earthlink.net/~mrob/pub/math/floatformats.html
This looks nice: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9629399/chap14.htm VAX D, F, G, and H formats, and also the Cray and IBM formats.
