On 2012-09-12 11:29:41 +0300, Hesham Moustafa wrote: > I want to inquire about the state of decimal floating point operations > at gcc low-level library. > Does gcc fully implement IEEE 754-2008 standard ?
No. Even for binary-only it doesn't (though it almost does). Also note that some parts of IEEE 754-2008 are (should be) implemented on the C library side (e.g. glibc). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
