Paolo Carlini <paolo.carl...@oracle.com> writes: > By the way, this doesn't make any sense to me: I don't see what the CPU > gains from having padding between mantissa and exponent, or different > bytes of the mantissa.
It's a fact of life. I didn't design the motorola floating point format. > If you really want to help the C++ library, please give me a a link to > the Intel documentation explaining this See libiberty/floatformat.c. 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."