On Jan 30 2017, Laurent Vivier <laur...@vivier.eu> wrote: > The floatx80 datatype used here is not exactly the same as the > one used by 680x0 for its extended precision data type, because > normally the signaling bit of 680x0 NAN is the MSB of the mantissa > minus one and in floatx80 it is the MSB.
An Intel Extended also has a different exponent bias than a Motorola Extended in the denormal range. In other words, for the latter the bias doesn't change between normal and denormal numbers. Andreas. -- 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."
