On Jul 21 2021, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote: > The Intel IA-64 Application Developer's Architecture Guide, May 1999, > (Order Number: 245188-001) on page 5-1, in Table 5-1 has > >>> ... >>> Total memory format width (bits) 32 64 80 128 >>> Exponent bias +127 +1023 +16383 +16383
That are the biases for normalized numbers. What does it say about denormalized numbers? Note that the i387 format does not allow for a biased exponent of zero when the explicit integer bit is one, unlike the m68881 format. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."
