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Are you referring to 80-bit floats used by the (long obsolete) x87 FPUs?
by jey 11y ago
Are you referring to 80-bit floats used by the (long obsolete) x87 FPUs?
- pjc50 11y agoThe 80-bit floats were still in use right through the 2000s; I know because I had to work out what option to use to get reproducible fp rounding on 64-bit doubles in 32-bit C. I've not had occasion to look at the details of amd64 fp.